What is the difference between .bz and .tar?
- Extension
- .bz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- It's an archive file created using Bzip compression that uses the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm and the Run-Length Encoding (RLE) to compress. Although the compression is slower compared to Gzip compression, it's of better quality. It is mainly developed by Unix OS.
- 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-bzip
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .bz on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia