What is the difference between .z and .zip?
- Extension
- .z
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- 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-compress
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .z on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia