[Mediawiki-l] chmod in text problems

[John Spikowski]

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

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