.GZIP File

File extension gzip is related to Gzip or GNU ZIP, one of the many compression tools available for users. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) and Huffman coding

A .gzip file is a compressed archive created in GZip.

MIME: application/x-compressed, application/x-gzip

Files with gzip extension an be usually found as compressed file archives using GNU ZIP tool. Most modern tools can extract these files.

How to open:

Most modern archiving tools (eg. WinRAR or 7-zip) should be able to decompress .gzip and extract the file contents.

How to convert:

You can repack these archives to some other format using your favourit archive compressor.