Tools.ini and NMAKE
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NMAKE reads Tools.ini before it reads makefiles, unless /R is used. It looks for Tools.ini first in the current directory and then in the directory specified by the INIT environment variable. The section for NMAKE settings in the initialization file begins with [NMAKE] and can contain any makefile information. Specify a comment on a separate line beginning with a number sign (#).