What is the difference between .ar and .tar?
- Extension
- .ar
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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 Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- 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-archive
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia