full system path navigation

[[3w'Sparky]]

Hi all, this is my first post and i'm new to Mac OSX "just bought a new lappy"

I am abit of an old hat with linux and as such always navigate via the full path on the top of the directory window, there doesn't seem to be any way of placing the full path on directory window, well i found one small mod which gives you the full path but its not editable , i'm after the editable method, i noticed that from safari you can infact put /etc or /var and it will take you to the path but in a new window.

any ways or ideas would be helpful

thanks

[earthsaver]

Perhaps you'd be happier working in Terminal? Or maybe Path Finder has the feature set you seek.