From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another word for "path"? Date: 22 Jan 2003 10:37:25 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com 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> <87y95ggaaw.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043260951 13917 80.91.224.249 (22 Jan 2003 18:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:42:31 +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 18bPpV-0003c8-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:42:29 +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 18bPoo-0007HP-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:41:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msc1.onvoy!onvoy.com!tethys.csu.net!nntp!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 30 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109354 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:5876 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5876 >>>>> 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). > 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. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA