difference bitween .dmg and .exe

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i was using mac the other day i found that it doesn't support .exe file but it needs .dmg file...what is the difference between .dmg and .exe file!!

Abizern · Answer 1 · 2010-12-12 18:15:38Z

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A dmg file is a disk image, and an exe is a Windows executable file.

answered Dec 12 '10 at 18:15

	which is the disc image file in windows... – abhinav Dec 12 '10 at 18:17
	@abhinav Not really a good analogy. A dmg is more like a "VCD" (virtual CD) image -- OS X+ dmg files use the UDIF file-format. Not really sure what happened on OS 9. – pst Dec 12 '10 at 18:19
	@abhinav: No, `.exe` is not a disk image file. A disk image is a virtual disk which can be mounted (just like, say, a USB drive) and contains other files. You can't "run" a disk image directly, you "open" it and then run programs from within the image. (In strictly Windows terms, a `.dmg` behaves pretty much like a `.zip` archive, not like a `.exe` executable.) – Dave Sherohman Dec 13 '10 at 12:11

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RandomNoob · Answer 2 · 2010-12-12 18:17:28Z

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answered Dec 12 '10 at 18:17

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FlightOfStairs · Answer 3 · 2010-12-12 18:17:25Z

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.exe files are windows executables; they need windows to run.

.dmg are Apple Disk Image files, which can contain mac executables and/or other data.

answered Dec 12 '10 at 18:17

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