1. < networking > 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.
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(1996-11-21)