What is the difference between .tgz and .zipx?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- 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-compressed
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia