Naming files and directories

Formations of file and directory names are governed by the following rules:

1.There should be a maximum of eight (8) characters used, with no spaces in

between, and an optional extension of at most three (3) characters after a period.
(For DOS and Windows 3.11 or 3.11 only)

2. The period (.) is a special character. It is used for no other purpose but to
separate the name of the file from the extension. No spaces are placed before and
after the period.

3. Valid characters maybe used are as follows:

A. the letters of the alphabet, from A to Z, regardless of whether they are

upper or lower case;

B. the digits) to 9; and

C. the following special character: underscore (_), caret (^), dollar sign ($),
tilde (~) exclamation point (!), number sign (#), percent sign (%), ampersand (&),
hyphen (-), braces ({and}), at sign (@), single quotation mark (`), apostrophe (‘),
and the parentheses,

4. Finally, no two names of a file or subdirectory in the same directory may be

identical.