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Portability

Portable Names
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   Use *straight* file and directory names, made up of printable ASCII
characters, avoiding colons, slashes, backslashes, and other
*dangerous* characters.  Avoid deep directory nesting.  Accounting for
oldish System V machines, limit your file and directory names to 14
characters or less.

   If you intend to have your `tar' archives to be read under MSDOS,
you should not rely on case distinction for file names, and you might
use the GNU `doschk' program for helping you further diagnosing illegal
MSDOS names, which are even more limited than System V's.