a path that begins with a period, for example,
a path that is described using descendants rather than specifying each node
a path to a file from some current location
a portion of the address of a file or directory on the UNIX system
a way to specify the location of a directory relative to another directory
A file path beginnning from an arbitrary position in a file system, rather than from the root.
a form of incomplete pathname that represents a filing system location relative to the current directory or drive, as opposed to an absolute path. The special characters "." and "..", when specified at the start of a path, represent the current directory and the parent of the current directory, respectively. (Also a local pathname without a drive-letter + ":\" prefix is interpreted as being relative to the current directory.) Montage allows the user to specify either the target or the initial directory of a Shortcut in terms of relative path (relative to the location of the montage), as a method of achieving greater portability. In addition, Montage supports a Relative Paths option, which automatically puts pathnames into relative or absolute form by default, without requiring this to be done manually.
A path that does not begin with the root directory. A relative path must be prefixed by a path segment that is an absolute path before it can be said to be a complete path. For example, a document whose location in the directory tree that is described by the complete path '/copernicus/rabbit_stories/favorite.html', could be said to have the following relative paths: 'copernicus/rabbit_stories/favorite.html' relative to the root directory, 'rabbit_stories/favorite.html' relative to the path '/copernicus/', 'favorite.html' relative to the path '/copernicus/rabbit_stories/'.
the directions to a given folder, page, graphic, etc. expressed as differences from the current location. For example, "/media/Presentation.mov" means the "Presentation.mov" file which is located in a folder titled "media" in the next folder above the current location. Relative paths are often used when files are located on the same server as the page referring to them, such as progressive download movies which reside on the same HTTP server as HTML web pages.
A path used with an internal link to reference a page or graphic within the website.
A path that begins with the working directory.
A partial path that does not begin with a slash (/). It is interpreted as relative to the current directory.
Refers to path descriptions that refer to a location from some other place other than the root. i.e. A path is relative if you are referring to your image directory from the cgi-bin like this: "../../documents/images".
path specification given relative to the current location. For example, a file called MyFile.DIR located in a folder called "DATA" would have the relative path "DATA\MyFile.DIR" (on a PC) or "DATA:MyFile.DIR" (On a Mac). You can convert it to an absolute path using: the pathname & relative path Refer to the TechNote, " Path and File Specifications"
A path to the target from another file or directory on the same volume.
A partial path relative to the location of the visited page.
