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path·name

 (păth′nām′, päth′-)
n.
The fully specified name of a computer file, including the position of the file in the file system's directory structure.
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pathname

(ˈpɑːθˌneɪm)
n
(Computer Science) computing the name of a file or directory together with its position in relation to other directories traced back in a line to the root; the names of the file and each of the parent directories are separated from one another by slashes
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CVS version IDs, however, are local per file, so resolving them requires finding the corresponding filename and perhaps (where filenames are not unique themselves) even pathname. This is much more difficult, hence quite error-prone, and often even impossible.
In addition, we write [bar.d] to denote the identifier of a document d such as the cryptographic hash of the pathname, and write x > ([y.sub.1], ..., [y.sub.n]) to denote x > [y.sub.1], ..., x > [y.sub.n] for simplicity.
The attributes name, description, aliasName, and pathName are intended for providing identifiers that are human-readable.
If the schematic editor uses a pathname location table to access library data, include a copy with the released schematic for future reference in order to ascertain where the "used" library data was obtained.
The ASP middleware generally requires a fully qualified physical pathname to the database.
The Page Grabber fetches pages from the Page Generator, parses them, retrieves embedded HTTP URLs and pushes them into a stack, replaces URLs embedded in the page with automatically generated file URLs, archives the updated page under the appropriate pathname, and finally recursively grabs the pages whose URLs are in the stack.
Having to identify data sets through a unique Unix pathname becomes especially difficult when the data being accessed was created by another researcher at another site.
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