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.