path

n 1: a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our

separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart";

"genius usually follows a revolutionary path" [syn: {way},

{way of life}]

2: a way especially designed for a particular use

3: an established line of travel or access [syn: {route}]

4: a line or route along which something travels or moves: "the

hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an

animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: {track}, {course}]

path

1. A {bang path} or explicitly routed {Internet

address}; a node-by-node specification of a link between two

machines.

2. {pathname}.

3. The list of directories the kernel

(under {Unix}) or the command interpreter (under {MS-DOS})

searches for {executables}. It is stored as part of the

{environment} in both operating systems.

Other, similar constructs abound under Unix; the {C}

{preprocessor}, for example, uses such a search path to locate

"#include" files.

[{Jargon File}]

(1996-11-21)