What is the difference between .iso and .zip?
- Name
- Disc Image
- Zipped File
- Extension
- .iso
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Phil Katz
- Description
- A disc image file format that contains exact duplicate data from an original CD/DVD and is based on the ISO-9660 Standard. It stores images, directory structures, file attributes, boot code, and any other filesystem information.
- 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-iso9660-image
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .iso on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia