files with funny names

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings.

I'm including gettext 0.11.x as part of gawk, and am trying to stay
current.

Gawk is ported to systems besides just Unix & Linux, many of which have
limitations in their file name characters.

In particular, my VMS porter notes about these files:

>>>   po/Makefile.in.in
>>>   po/address@hidden
>>>   po/address@hidden

That there are three different tar readers for VMS that do different
things with these files.  He also notes:

> (Actually, even if there was only one tar reader, someone using NFS for
> accessing the sources directly off a Unix box would almost certainly
> see different altered names.)

Is it possible to stick to names that use a-z, 0-9, dash and underscore?
Also a single period?  Makefile.in.in could just as easily be Makefile_in.in,
for example.

Much thanks,

Arnold Robbins