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Re: Another word for "path"?
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David Masterson |
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Re: Another word for "path"? |
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22 Jan 2003 10:37:25 -0800 |
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>>>>> Barry Margolin writes:
> In article <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>,
> Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>>> Whatever... Where have you seen 'path' defined this way?
>> GNU coding standards. Since Tramp is a GNU program (or part of it,
>> anyway), it's a good idea to adhere to this document :-)
> Unix has always referred to something like /foo/bar/baz as a
> pathname.
I thought it always referred to as "filename". I think the term
"pathname" became more prevalent after $PATH came into being (so it
does go back a *long* way).
> I've always understood a list of directories like in $PATH to be
> called a "search path", to distinguish it from a "file path".
Didn't VMS have a "file path" type concept that was more akin to $PATH
such that you could say "$PATH:file" and it would search the PATH for
a "file"? Maybe it was also a concept in TOPS-20/10, but that's too
far back for me to remember clearly.
--
David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: Another word for "path"?, (continued)
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Galen Boyer, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Harry Putnam, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, gebser, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, David Masterson, 2003/01/19
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Pascal Bourguignon, 2003/01/19
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Johan Bockgård, 2003/01/21
RE: Another word for "path"?, Bingham, Jay, 2003/01/21
Re: Another word for "path"?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/22
RE: Another word for "path"?, Bingham, Jay, 2003/01/22