What is the difference between .arc and .tar?
- Extension
- .arc
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Other
- Developer
- Symantec
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- Backup file created by Norton software products, such as Norton 360 and Norton Online Backup; contains a backup of computer files created automatically by the software; may include personal user files as well as system files.
- 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/octet-stream
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .arc on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia