latex2html: Bug in \chardef?

[Dan Young]

The following document excerpt is accepted by latex but bombs in l2h:

   \documentclass{report}
   \begin{document}

   \chardef\backslash=`\\

   \begin{itemize}
   \item[{\tt \backslash}]
   Backslash is the escape character
   \end{itemize}

   \end{document}

% latex2html demo.tex
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998)
        [...]
Unknown commands: < chardef
Done.

Dan Young