 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In a computer operating system, a path is the route through a file system to a particular file. A path name (or pathname in Windows) is the specification of that path, including the name of the file. An absolute path name (or fully qualified path name) specifies the complete path name. A relative path name specifies a path relative to the directory to which the operating system is currently set.
Each operating system has its own format for specifying a path name. The DOS, Windows, and OS/2 operating systems use this format:
Drive_letter:\directoryname\subdirectoryname\filename.suffix
In UNIX-based systems, the format is:
/directory/subdirectory/filename
In UNIX, the storage drive location is not an explicit part of the path name.
Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Legal Notice.