All the GROMA program settings, including tolerances, input/output format, arrangement of the opened windows on the monitor, etc. are stored in the initialization file GROMA.INI. Location of this file varies depending on the MS Windows version used. If there is a variable USERPROFILE in the environment, the configuration file will be placed in the directory indicated by this variable. This variable is set in the Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems. If this variable is not defined, the configuration file will be placed in the directory where MS Windows is installed (typically C:\WINDOWS).
The location of the configuration file can be changed using the start parameter. The list of the used parameter is in the appendix.
If the initialization file hasn't been found during the first start of the GROMA system, the program will copy the standard pre-defined configuration located in the GROMA directory system.
The configuration system is a text file which can, theoretically, be directly edited; however, we do not recommend it because all its items can be set from the GROMA Program environment. Shall this file be defect, or shall it contain unexpected or inadmissible data, the correct program behavior can not be ensured.
Considering that in the program one can set quite a large amount of parameters (in some cases, for example the input/output formats, the parameters setup can be quite laborious), we recommend backup of the initialization file every so often.