What is the difference between .arc and .zip?
- Extension
- .arc
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Compressed
- Developer
- Symantec
- Phil Katz
- Description
- Backup file created by Norton software products, such as Norton 360 and Norton Online Backup; contains a backup of computer files created automatically by the software; may include personal user files as well as system files.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .arc on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia