The TOOLS.INI file customizes the behavior and user interface of several Microsoft products. The TOOLS.INI file is a plain ASCII text file. You should place it in a directory pointed to the INIT environment variable. (If you do not use the INIT environment variable, CodeView looks for TOOLS.INI only in the CodeView source directory.)
The CodeView section of TOOLS.INI is preceded by the following line:
[cv]
If you run the protected-mode version of CodeView, use [cvp] instead. If you run both versions, include both: [cv cvp]. You can have separate sections for cv and cvp if you want different customizations.
Most of the TOOLS.INI customizations for CodeView control screen colors, but you can also specify such things as start-up commands or the default name of the file that receives CodeView output. See the Configure CodeView section of CodeView online help for full information about all TOOLS.INI switches that control CodeView.