- Extension
- .lz
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-compressed