What is the difference between .arc and .tar.z?
- Extension
- .arc
- .tar.z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Compressed
- Developer
- Symantec
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- A TAR.Z file is a Unix TAR archive compressed with a standard Unix compression algorithm to save disk space. It contains one or more compressed files. The file is commonly used on Unix operating systems to archive groups of files.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-tarz
- Wikipedia
- .arc on Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia