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pathname


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  pathname 
 
    (Or  "path")  The  specification  of  a  node  (file  or 
  directory)  in  a  {hierarchical  file  system}.  The  path  is 
  usually  specified  by  listing  the  nodes  top-down,  separating 
  the  directories  by  the  {pathname  separator}  ("/"  in  {Unix}, 
  "\"  in  {MS-DOS}). 
 
  A  pathname  may  be  an  {absolute  pathname}  or  a  {relative 
  pathname}.  The  part  of  the  pathname  of  a  file  after  the  last 
  separator  is  called  the  {basename}. 
 
  (1997-03-10)