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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>path</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="patch-space.html" title="patch space"/><link rel="next" href="pathological.html" title="pathological"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">path</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="patch-space.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pathological.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="path"/><dt xmlns="" id="path"><b>path</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A <a href="../B/bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a> or explicitly routed Internet
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address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines.
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Though these are now obsolete as a form of addressing, they still show up
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in diagnostics and trace headers occasionally (e.g. in NNTP headers).
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory
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(as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes
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called a <span class="firstterm">relative path</span>). This is
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also called a <span class="firstterm">pathname</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Unix and MS-DOS/Windows] The <span class="firstterm">search
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path</span>, an environment variable specifying the directories in
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which the <a href="../S/shell.html"><i class="glossterm">shell</i></a> (COMMAND.COM, under MS-DOS) should
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look for commands. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix (for
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example, the C preprocessor has a <span class="firstterm">search
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path</span> it uses in looking for <b class="command">#include</b> files).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="patch-space.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pathological.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">patch space </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pathological</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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