Before displaying the prompt, the system checks whether there is a file called .eclipserc in the current directory and if not, in the user's home directory and if this file is found, ECLiPSe compiles it first. Thus it is possible to put various initialisation commands into this file. ECLiPSe has many possibilities to change its default behaviour and setting up a .eclipserc file is a convenient way to achieve this. A different name for the initialisation file can be specified in the environment variable ECLIPSEINIT. If ECLIPSEINIT is set to an empty string, no initialisation is done. If the system is started with a -e option, then the .eclipserc file is ignored.