In article , Mark Lloyd
wrote:


IIRC, ISO is an archive file and you can extract from it just like .ZIP.

iso is a disk image.

I remember problems trying to write ISO to CD/DVD because an archive
program had claimed the ISO extension.

that's a separate issue.

They are both because an ISO is an archive file.

it isn't, because iso is an image file, with a file system. there are
apps that can mount it or extract individual files without mounting.

association is separate.