A z file extension is related to the Unix compressed archive file format, created with various compression tools for Unix operating system.
There are 3 other file types using
the Z file extension!
.z - Star Wars The Force Unleashed XML game data
.z - InstallShield archive
.z - Zero Compiler header
Software that open z file
Z file extension - Unix compressed archive
What is z file? How to open z files?
The z file extension is used for compressed archived created in Unix environment.
Unix archives with z file extension are used GNUzip compression format.
MIME types:
application/x-compressed
application/x-compress
application/gzip
application/x-gzip
application/z
application/x-z
Updated: April 6, 2024
The default software associated to open z file:
Company or developer:
Igor Pavlov
A free file archiver developed by Igor Pavlov featuring higher compression ratios with LZMA and LZMA2 compression.
It is mainly available for Windows platform (for Mac and Linux are available command line tools) and is the primary program to handle 7z archives. However, also supports various compression file formats.
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z
A popular archiving utility on Unix and Unix based operating systems, TAR (Tape Archiver) is used only to archive more files in to one, but it is not able to compress them. For compression of TAR archives, external compression utilities need to be used, such as gzip, bzip2, xz, lzip, lzma.
List of software applications associated to the .z file extension
Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open z file, edit z file, convert z file, view z file, play z file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Hint:
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting z files.
Software that open z file - Unix compressed archive
Programs supporting the exension z on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open z file action.
Microsoft Windows:
Main software associated with z file by default:
7-zip
Other suggested software:
ALZip
IZArc
PKZIP for Windows
WinZip
WinRAR
Zipeg
Stuffit
StuffIt Deluxe
