Because lots of file transfer programs on Windows are still in an 8.3
DOS mindset, they truncate the filetype to a 3 character file-extension.
/Tom Kern
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Apr 21, 2008, at 16:13, Mike Walter wrote:
Files with filetype ".vma" are in VMARC format. VMARC is a common
VM tool
for compressing a single large file for safe transmission across
the net,
or compressing multiple files into a single file for the same reason.
Why, then, not ".vmarc", which I would have expected and understood?
-- gil
