- Extension
- .lz
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- Julian Seward
- Description
- An archive file format that uses lossless data compression LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm and incorporates 32-bit CRC checksum to check data integrity of the file. Lzip supports greater compression ratios than bzip2.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-bzip2