What is the difference between .ar and .bz2?
- Extension
- .ar
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Julian Seward
- Description
- AR is a Unix archive file that is purposely used to develop and update static library files for creating .deb packages. Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia