What is the difference between .gzip and .zip?
- Extension
- .gzip
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-gzip
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia