What is the difference between .tar.bz2 and .zipx?
- Extension
- .tar.bz2
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- 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-bzip-compressed-tar
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia