- Extension
- .rz
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Andrew Tridgell
- PKWARE, Inc.
- 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.
- 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-rzip
- application/zip
