What is the difference between .lha and .gzip?
- Extension
- .lha
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- GNU
- Description
- The LHA (also known as LHARC) file type is a compressed archive format developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki. It primarily uses the LZSS algorithm and Huffman coding for compression, enabling the efficient packaging of multiple files and directories into a single, smaller file. Initially designed for use in the DOS operating system, LHA became popular in Japan and was widely adopted for software distribution on platforms such as Amiga and early versions of Windows.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/lha
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .lha on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia