What is the difference between .rar and .zipx?
- Extension
- .rar
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Eugene Roshal
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- A RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- 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-rar-compressed
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.rar
- Wikipedia
- .rar on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia