What is the difference between .zipx and .tar?
- Extension
- .zipx
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia