path

1. networking A bang path or explicitly routed Internetaddress; a node-by-node specification of a link between two

machines.

2. file system pathname.

3. operating system 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)