Pathname

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)