What is the difference between .dmg and .tar?
- Extension
- .dmg
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Apple
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- It is a raw format image file that is developed in MacOS. The mountable disk image data is compressed or encrypted at times and is mainly used for installing Mac application that has been downloaded online.
- 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-apple-diskimage
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .dmg on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia