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+/* Fuzzy string comparison.
+   Copyright (C) 1995, 2000, 2002-2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This file was written by Peter Miller <pmiller@agso.gov.au>
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+
+#ifndef _FSTRCMP_H
+#define _FSTRCMP_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/* Fuzzy compare of S1 and S2.  Return a measure for the similarity of S1
+   and S1.  The higher the result, the more similar the strings are.  */
+extern double fstrcmp (const char *s1, const char *s2);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif