- Extension
- .gz
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/zip
