What is the difference between .ar and .zipx?
- Extension
- .ar
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- AR is a Unix archive file that is purposely used to develop and update static library files for creating .deb packages. Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/zip
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia