What is the difference between .gzip and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .gzip
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Bzip2
- Description
- 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.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-gzip
- application/x-bzip2
- Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia
- .tbz2 on Wikipedia