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Re: Another word for "path"?
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Barry Margolin |
Subject: |
Re: Another word for "path"? |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:23:14 GMT |
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".
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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- Re: Another word for "path"?, (continued)
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Galen Boyer, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Harry Putnam, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, gebser, 2003/01/18
- Re: Another word for "path"?, David Masterson, 2003/01/19
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Pascal Bourguignon, 2003/01/19
- Re: Another word for "path"?, Johan Bockgård, 2003/01/21
RE: Another word for "path"?, Bingham, Jay, 2003/01/21
Re: Another word for "path"?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/22
RE: Another word for "path"?, Bingham, Jay, 2003/01/22