What is the difference between .lzh and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .lzh
- .tar.bz2
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .lzh on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia