- Extension
- .bz2
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Eugene Roshal
- Description
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- A RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-rar-compressed
