What is the difference between .cab and .bz2?
- Extension
- .cab
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Julian Seward
- Description
- A CAB file is a Windows Cabinet file saved in an archive format native to Microsoft Windows that supports .ZIP, Quantum, and LZX data compression algorithms. CAB files contain compressed data and is used for Windows software installations such as system files, network components, and device drivers.
- 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).
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.cab
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .cab on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia