What is the difference between .ace and .tar?
- Extension
- .ace
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- WinAce
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- File archive compressed by WinAce; uses a proprietary compression algorithm that offers a high compression ratio and fast compression speed.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-ace-compressed
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.ace
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .ace on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia