What is the difference between .lzh and .gzip?
- Extension
- .lzh
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- GNU
- 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.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .lzh on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia