Definition of TARE. 1. : a deduction from the gross weight of a substance and its container made in allowance for the weight of the container; also: the weight of the container. 2. : counterweight.
A filename cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ?  < > |. 1  Those characters have a functional meaning that affects the operating system's handling of the files and even recognizing that there is even a file if it had to encounter such a filename. I imagine you could rename within some version of Linux for example, but then I imagine you'd produce a file that Windows would hang up on.
For more information, see Namespaces. 1  Do not end a file or directory name with a space or a period. 2  Although the underlying file system may support such names, the Windows shell and user interface does not. 3  However, it is acceptable to specify a period as the first character of a name. 4  For example, .temp.