- Extension
- .lz
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- GNU
- 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.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-gzip