On May 23, 2018, at 10:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Why didn't the supplier, as a courtesy to the customer, deliver the file with
> the needed extension and save that step?

This is just a guess, but maybe some firewalls or other policy enforcing 
software block .jar files but allow .zip files. If you have a Java VM on your 
system, .jar files contain executable code and in some circumstances might be 
executed inadvertently.


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Pew, Curtis G
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ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services

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