What is the difference between .img and .tar?
- Extension
- .img
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- A disc image file used to store duplicate CD or DVD data and is commonly used to burn new discs and creating backups. It is developed by any disc imaging software like HH Software Virtual CD.
- 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-cd-image
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.img
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .img on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia