Re: weird record names?

["Kasemir, Kay via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

>> the '#' character for "internal" record, i.e. a record  which is used for instance for intermediate calculations, >
>..hash character #.. we use it here at APS

It starts comments in shell scripts, python, ... so several tools may also use it that way.
Pretty sure autosave files skip lines that start with '#', so you can't save/restore records that start with '#'.