Subject: Re: registered file extensions on win32

From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:00:49 +1300 (NZDT)

.pl is registered by Perl script engines 
	(ActivePerl, Win32Perl). SWI installed from 
	binary package registers this extension 
	for itself, rendering perl totally unusable.
	
This was sheer bad manners by the Perl people; Prolog was there
first, and if they had used '.pe' we'd have had no problem at all.

In order to keep various Prolog dialects apart, it is already
convenient to use different file type strings, such as '.swi'.
There's no way a solution devised here can be forced on other
Prolog suppliers, so how about '.swi'?