After SWI-Prolog has been installed on a Windows system, the
following important new things are available to the user:
- A folder (called directory in the remainder of this
document) called
swipl containing the executables,
libraries, etc., of the system. No files are installed outside this
directory.
- A program swipl-win.exe, providing a window for interaction
with Prolog. The program swipl.exe is a version of SWI-Prolog
that runs in a console window.
- The file extension
.pl is associated with the program
swipl-win.exe. Opening a .pl file will cause
swipl-win.exe to start, change directory to the directory in
which the file to open resides, and load this file.
The normal way to start the likes.pl file mentioned in
section 2.1.1.1 is
by simply double-clicking this file in the Windows explorer.
