What is the difference between .gzip and .zipx?
- Extension
- .gzip
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- PKWARE, Inc.
- 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.
- 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-gzip
- application/zip
- Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia