What is the difference between SEA ARC Archive and .tar.gz?
- Extension
- .arc
- .tar.gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- System Enhancement Associates
- The GNU Project
- Description
- An ARC archive is a compressed file archive from the MS-DOS and bulletin-board era, made by SEA's ARC program; unrelated to Norton backup files that also use .arc.
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- MIME Type
- application/x-arc
- application/gzip
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz