What is the difference between .lha and .zip?
- Extension
- .lha
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- Phil Katz
- 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 ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/lha
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .lha on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia