Configuring Compid

The first time Compid is run, a data directory by name .compid is created under the user's home directory. Within the directory, configuration file compid.conf is created as well as the database (in subdirectory compidDB.

An ordinary text editor can be used to modify settings in compid.conf to, for example, change the database it is using. Compid can also use a different configuration file by modifying Compid's startup script to pass an argument: --conf <configuration file>. Modified startup script compid.cmd on Windows might look like this:

@START /B javaw -jar -Xms128m -Xmx850m "compid.jar" --conf "C:\alternate.conf"