In article , David Masterson wrote: >>>>>> Barry Margolin writes: > >> In article <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, >> Kai Großjohann 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). "filename" is often used to refer to the individual components of a pathname, e.g. "foo", "bar", and "baz" are filenames. The term "pathname" goes way back to the 60's -- it was used by Multics designers. >> 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. I think they called them "logical devices", or something like that, because you used them in a pathname in place of a disk device. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.