Peter Brownwater wrote in a message to Trev Roydhouse:
 PB>      Does anyone know how to rid my life of these inane [ 
 PB> 0] thingies      in my database?
Sure.
sed ' /\[.*\]/s///g' Files.bbs ' >files.tmp'
move files.tmp files.bbs
SED is the Unix Stream EDitor ported to DOS and OS/2.  It says:
search for any string with a "[" followed by any characters ending in a "]"
and substitute nothing in its place.
If you don't have one, I use SED106.ZIP here, and the doc say it works in 
both OS/2 and DOS, but I never bother with DOS.   I also have SED15.ZIP which 
I used to use in DOS, and it is also very good.  It has many uses.  I use it 
to strip oec codes from files I automatically create for the BBS, for D/L'ing 
as text, and also for stripping d/l counters from file lists I carry that I 
get from MAX BBS's.
If you meant how to get OPUS179 to stop using them, I can't help ya, haven't 
looked at it yet.  
                                              Jack 
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