What is the difference between .ar and .gzip?
- Extension
- .ar
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- GNU
- 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 Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia