What is the difference between .lha and .tar?
- Extension
- .lha
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- 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/lha
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .lha on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia