What is the difference between .gzip and .tar?
- Extension
 - .gzip
 - .tar
 
- Format
 - Binary
 - Binary
 
- Category
 - Compressed
 - Other
 
- Developer
 - GNU
 - Jean-loup Gailly
 
- Description
 - A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
 - 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-gzip
 - application/x-tar
 
- Sample
 - sample.tar
 
- Wikipedia
 - .gzip on Wikipedia
 - .tar on Wikipedia