What is the difference between .lzh and .gz?
- Extension
- .lzh
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .lzh on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia