HTML archives (was: Re: including <stdlib.h>)

[Ross Smith <ross dot smith at nz dot eds dot com>]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Ross" == Ross Smith <ross.smith@nz.eds.com> writes:
> 
> Ross> The list archive is returning the documents as HTML, but
> Ross> neglecting to replace less-than and greater-than (and maybe
> Ross> ampersand too, I haven't checked) with the appropriate
> Ross> entity codes.
> 
> This is kind-of a feature.  I actually suggested doing things this way
> early on because it means you can save (as source) a patch and patch
> your sources with it.   If the '<' became '&lt' that wouldn't be
> possible.  Perhaps the CVS server obsoletes this, but perhaps not;
> it's sometimes nice to be able to try out someone's patch, or assist
> them with it, before it's ready to be checked in.  Ideally, of course,
> we'd have both...

I don't understand the problem. Netscape, and I assume any web browser,
can save a page as plain text, which converts the HTML entities back
into characters.

(Please don't mail to me as well as the list, it just means I get it
twice.)

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