What is the difference between .z and .bzip2?
- Extension
- .z
- .bzip2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- bzip2
- Description
- It is an archive file that uses simple compression to compress files in the Unix OS. The files can easily be decompressed on the same OS.
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compress
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bzip2