What is the difference between .fat and .gzip?
- Extension
- .fat
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- GNU
- Description
- FAT (File Allocation Table) is a robust and simple file system that is used by the OS to manage files (i.e., reliability, performance, and scalability) on computer systems and hard drives. It is compatible with almost all computers, digital cameras, flash drives, mobile phones, and other portable devices; hence, it's common to use.
- 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-msdos-program
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .fat on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia