What is the difference between .lha and .tgz?
- Extension
- .lha
- .tgz
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/lha
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .lha on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia