What is the difference between .dmg and .gzip?
- Extension
- .dmg
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Apple
- GNU
- Description
- It is a raw format image file that is developed in MacOS. The mountable disk image data is compressed or encrypted at times and is mainly used for installing Mac application that has been downloaded online.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-apple-diskimage
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .dmg on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia