What is the difference between .lz and .tar?
- Extension
- .lz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Lzip
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .lz on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia