- Extension
- .bz2
- .bzip2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- bzip2
- Description
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-bzip2
