[Mediawiki-l] chmod in text problems

Sun Jan 23 15:07:58 UTC 2005

John Spikowski wrote:

>I was trying to include the following text and MediaWiki refused to save the
>edit.
>
> chmod x+b text
>
>It would save the following without error
>
> chmod
>
> x+b text
>  
>

I am moving several installation manuals to mediawiki...

All parts which are taken from configfiles and commands  are placed 
between <pre> and </pre>
This should solve your problem and also "jumps out" as something other 
than text.

Suc6, Bob

>If I put anything after the chmod text it fails the save edit process. I
>even tried to encapsulate it with the <nowiki>  </nowiki> tags without
>resolve.
>
>Is there a HTML to MediaWiki conversion utility? I have a bunch of
>programming language reference guide pages I need to move.
>
>Thanks for any help with the above.
>
>John
>
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