Strings in pathname component values never contain special characters that represent separation between pathname fields, such as slash in Unix filenames. Whether separator characters are permitted as part of a string in a pathname component is implementation-defined; however, if the implementation does permit it, it must arrange to properly "quote" the character for the file system when constructing a namestring. For example,
;; In a TOPS-20 implementation, which uses {^}V to quote
(NAMESTRING (MAKE-PATHNAME :HOST "OZ" :NAME "<TEST>"))
=> #P"OZ:PS:{^}V<TEST{^}V>"
NOT=> #P"OZ:PS:<TEST>"
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