What is the difference between .lzh and .bz2?
- Extension
- .lzh
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- Julian Seward
- Description
- An LHA compressed file format that uses the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm. It began on the Amiga platform but has since grown to be used in other platforms. It is very similar to Gzip as the same lz77 compression codec is applied.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .lzh on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia