What is the difference between .chq and .tgz?
- Extension
- .chq
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- GNU
- Description
- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format. It was first introduced with the release of Windows 98, and is still supported and distributed through Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 platforms.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-chq-help-file
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia