What is the difference between .lz and .rar?
- Extension
- .lz
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- Eugene Roshal
- 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 RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-rar-compressed
- Sample
- sample.rar
- Wikipedia
- .lz on Wikipedia
- .rar on Wikipedia