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Syntax for `Backup-specs'
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   `backup-specs' is in shell script syntax.  The following conventions
should be considered when editing the script:

   A quoted string is considered to be contiguous, even if it is on more
than one line.  Therefore, you cannot include commented-out lines
within a multi-line quoted string.  BACKUP_FILES and BACKUP_DIRS are
the two most likely parameters to be multi-line.

   A quoted string typically cannot contain wildcards.  In
`backup-specs', however, the parameters BACKUP_DIRS and BACKUP_FILES
can contain wildcards.