From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bingham, Jay" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Another word for "path"? Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:55:43 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F5044217F6@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043262079 19423 80.91.224.249 (22 Jan 2003 19:01:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bQ7h-000531-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:01:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQ6l-0000pK-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQ6F-0000fX-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQ4Z-0008QH-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:58:04 -0500 Original-Received: from zcamail03.zca.compaq.com ([161.114.32.103]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bQ2K-0007cr-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:55:45 -0500 Original-Received: from cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net (cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.105.250.94]) by zcamail03.zca.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9957110 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:55:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.74.7.244]) by cacexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:55:43 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Another word for "path"? Thread-Index: AcLCRghpka1nu34FTIG65oHMVRmSRwAAHK0w Original-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2003 18:55:43.0733 (UTC) FILETIME=[DDAC7A50:01C2C247] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5877 On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:37 PM David Masterson writes: >>>>>> Barry Margolin writes: > >> In article <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, >> Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: >>> Pascal Bourguignon 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. VMS did have such a concept, how I miss it. A "symbol" could be defined = that contained a series of directory specifications. The symbol was not = limited to name PATH so multiple search path symbols could be defined = and did not require a $ preceding it. It was very useful, it is too bad = that Unix does not have a similar facility. -_ J_) C_)ingham . HP - NonStop Austin Software & Services - Software Quality = Assurance . Austin, TX . "Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. . Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire." -Dr. George W. = Crane-