From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another word for "path"? Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:49:46 GMT Organization: Genuity, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84hec65ylb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043263386 25608 80.91.224.249 (22 Jan 2003 19:23:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:23:06 +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 18bQSi-0006du-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:23:00 +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 18bQQi-0003gS-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:20:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Trace: +r9wQyNUpnWQjdzWg3dwb+nhy0bNuFr2M9GyMEEqn49WYxEQ2lqJ0FydwqHALC8tlKleNKkofmqw!v9y6RPIwg1NhfXTVnFCW39oMPa8R4FsF9Zp9HqS1Ik4QZseFWNvdNvc8BpTQcwJn2WPiyGsBMuDZ!0nL++L/c4yxl Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:49:46 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109357 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:5879 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5879 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.