What is the difference between .ar and .gz?
- Extension
- .ar
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- The GNU Project
- 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 Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia