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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current
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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:01:57 -0500
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    # is not the problem, at least for vfat and ntfs filesystems. The 
    problem that was reported was with the *s in #*scratch*#12345xyz#.

I see.  So it is a matter of changing certain chars when they appear
in buffer names.  That seems harmless; make-auto-save-file-name
already does some such transformations.  There's no harm adding more.