Subject: registered file extensions on win32

From: "Petr Kocmid" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:32:23 +0100

Hi,

Just an idea of what's painfull with editing
and compiling/launching prolog sources.

Win32 registered prolog file extensions collide 
with other applications. Not only SWI, but
other prologs affected too.

.pl is registered by Perl script engines 
(ActivePerl, Win32Perl). SWI installed from 
binary package registers this extension 
for itself, rendering perl totally unusable.

.pro is registered by Microsoft DirectMusic
Producer (component app of DirectX SDK) as 
DirectMusic Project file

.plg is a html synonym (mime text/html) 
registered by Microsoft Developer Studio
(VStudio build protocols)

I feel some kind of standard will be strongly 
needed soon. Any ideas?

I am using .prolog extension on Windows 
and Linux (or .pro for 8.3 filesystems), 
mime type "text/prolog", having registered
custom editor and plwin.exe for that ext.

Petr Kocmid
[email-masked]