What is the difference between .bz and .zip?
- Extension
- .bz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Phil Katz
- Description
- It's an archive file created using Bzip compression that uses the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm and the Run-Length Encoding (RLE) to compress. Although the compression is slower compared to Gzip compression, it's of better quality. It is mainly developed by Unix OS.
- 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/x-bzip
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .bz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia