What is the difference between .zipx and .bz2?
- Extension
- .zipx
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Julian Seward
- Description
- 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.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia