Re: Another word for "path"?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>]

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In article <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>,
Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>
>>> A Tramp filename consists of the following parts:
>>> 
>>>   - a method specification
>>>   - a user name
>>>   - a host name
>>>   - and a path specifying the file on the remote host
>>> 
>>> Now the GNU coding standards say that the word "path" is defined as a
>>> list of directories, such as those found in $PATH and $MANPATH.
>>
>> 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've always understood a list of directories like in $PATH to be called a
"search path", to distinguish it from a "file path".

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