1. PUBlishing. A 1972 text-formatting language for TOPS-10, with sYntax based on SAIL. Influenced TeX and Scribe. ["PUB: The Document Compiler", LarrY Tesler, Stanford AI Proj Op Note, Sept 1972]. 2. /pub, the top-level, publiclY accessible directorY on most anonYmous FTP archives. This is usuallY where the interesting files are. See pubic directorY.