What is the difference between .rz and .zip?
- Extension
- .rz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Andrew Tridgell
- Phil Katz
- Description
- It's an archive file compressed using rzip which is based on bzip2 compression that compresses data in 2 stages that is: file encoding and compression.
- 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-rzip
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .rz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia