diff --git a/bin/verilator b/bin/verilator
index adc98903e..aefe28058 100755
--- a/bin/verilator
+++ b/bin/verilator
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ Coverage analysis adds statements at each code flow change point, which are
 the branches of IF and CASE statements, a super-set of normal Verilog Line
 Coverage.  At each such branch a unique counter is incremented.  At the end
 of a test, the counters along with the filename and line number
-corresponding to each counter are written into logs/coverage.pl.
+corresponding to each counter are written into logs/coverage.dat.
 
 Verilator automatically disables coverage of branches that have a $stop in
 them, as it is assumed $stop branches contain an error check that should
@@ -3816,10 +3816,10 @@ At the end of your test, call VerilatedCov::write passing the name of the
 coverage data file (typically "logs/coverage.dat").
 
 Run each of your tests in different directories.  Each test will create a
-logs/coverage.pl file.
+logs/coverage.dat file.
 
 After running all of your tests, verilator_coverage is executed.
-Verilator_coverage reads the logs/coverage.pl file(s), and creates an
+Verilator_coverage reads the logs/coverage.dat file(s), and creates an
 annotated source code listing showing code coverage details.
 
 For an example, after running 'make test' in the Verilator distribution,
diff --git a/bin/verilator_coverage b/bin/verilator_coverage
index a210cb9e8..a073dc7c5 100755
--- a/bin/verilator_coverage
+++ b/bin/verilator_coverage
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ additional points.
 Additional Verilog-standard arguments specify the search paths necessary to
 find the source code that the coverage analysis was performed on.
 
-To get correct coverage percentages, you may wish to read logs/coverage.pl
+To get correct coverage percentages, you may wish to read logs/coverage.dat
 into Emacs and do a M-x keep-lines to include only those statistics of
 interest.
 
diff --git a/src/VlcMain.cpp b/src/VlcMain.cpp
index 51c8b0147..cadf5c28f 100644
--- a/src/VlcMain.cpp
+++ b/src/VlcMain.cpp
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv, char** env) {
     top.opt.parseOptsList(argc-1, argv+1);
 
     if (top.opt.readFiles().empty()) {
-	top.opt.addReadFile("vlt_coverage.pl");
+	top.opt.addReadFile("vlt_coverage.dat");
     }
 
     {