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path: n. 1. A bang path or explicitly routed Internet
address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines.
Though these are now obsolete as a form of addressing, they still show up
in diagnostics and trace headers occasionally (e.g. in NNTP headers).
2. [Unix] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory
(as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes
called a relative path). This is
also called a pathname. 3. [Unix and MS-DOS/Windows] The search
path, an environment variable specifying the directories in
which the shell (COMMAND.COM, under MS-DOS) should
look for commands. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix (for
example, the C preprocessor has a search
path it uses in looking for #include files).
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