The first time you run the cgminer.exe by just double clicking it, hopefully it will prompt you to set up some details (pool address, username, password, etc etc). If it succeeds without crashing and even beings mining you can press "S" -> "W" -> "ENTER" to save the config file with its default name.
Then you can close cgminer and edit the config file in notepad, or, change settings via the GUI in cgminer. Remember if you do the later you need to save the config file again after you've changed the settings.
And yes reading through all the relevant readme files will help you a lot.
Topic: new to mining. Help w/ config file (Read 6191 times)
I'm assuming you're talking about CGMiner? There's an example.conf to get you started right in the CGMiner folder. If you're looking for specific options, the multiple READMEs will give them to you in pretty detailed explanations.
I"m new to mining. How do you create a config file for a client?
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