What is the difference between .bzip2 and .zip?
- Extension
- .bzip2
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- bzip2
- Phil Katz
- Description
- 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.
- 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-bzip2
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .bzip2 on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia