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.