Comment on There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ?

• droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Compressed files. Files that contain other files in a form that takes less space but needs more processing to access

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• DisguisedJoker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Try renaming a docx file extension to zip. Then open the file, you’ll see that there are other files (mostly XML) inside. The docx is a container.

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes you can just unzip a .exe file and it’s got a bunch of smaller files inside
  Also Java’s .jar files are literally just .zip files with a different name
  Lots of video files are just a group of files smashed together pretending to be one single file. Like video, audio, subtitles, a little text file with some descriptive info in it…

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