I've noticed some media players (like Sonique) on Win32 tend to "steal" the .pl extention on installation for playlists by default.

These days, you're better off ignoring the extention, except as a quick-and-dirty way to know what's in the file from an 'ls' or 'dir' listing. It's easy to fall into the trap of making extentions meaningful to programs (I'm guilty of this in Gopher::Server::TypeMapper), but try to find a better way to determine filetypes automatically.

(I wish more operating systems would store the MIME type as meta-information on the file. Then we can finally be rid of this name-extention garbage.)

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In reply to Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by hardburn
in thread Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by bradcathey

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