>> > Thank you for your step by step explanation -- this is not an irony,
>> > I mean it! But unfortunately, even if you use NetBSD's "ftp" the
>> > problem remains. I had already tried wget and got the same result.
>> > I diff'd the files between "ftp"'s and wget's. No difference.
>> 
>> I was bitten by this problem too. It turns out that the WWW interface
>> replaces some characters with HTML entities, such as " with "
>
>And of course '>' with '&gt', and so on and so on.  Argh, I had
>forgotten about those too.
>
>Looks like for now the only really useful interface is the e-mail one.....

on a related note, i realized at some point (and occasionally notice
again and again, because i forget) that freebsd has "raw e-mail" links
on their mailing list archive pages.  compare this:

	http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=588388+0+archive/2003/freebsd-bugs/20030112.freebsd-bugs

which is html (i dug around for a bit until i found a posting that had
& and > replaced by the html entities), with this:

	http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=588388+0+archive/2003/freebsd-bugs/20030112.freebsd-bugs+raw

which is a very similar url, but is in "plain text"...

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