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The ADAM_USER Directory
When any ADAM application, or
ICL,
is run, a directory known as the
ADAM_USER directory is used to hold various automatically-created files.
These are: program parameter files, the global parameter file (GLOBAL.sdf)
and task identifying files (used by the ADAM inter-task message system).
The directory is also used by the
MAG library as the default to contain
information about the user's tape devices.
By default, subdirectory adam in the user's HOME directory
is used. If you want to use some other directory, set its name in
environment variable ADAM_USER.
Whichever directory is used, it will be created if necessary (and possible).
The directory and/or its contents can be deleted when not in use, but this
may remove memory of parameter values last used.
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ADAM
Starlink User Note 144
A J Chipperfield
17 August 2001
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk
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