- Extension
- .lz
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- Igor Pavlov
- 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 format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-7z-compressed