What is the difference between .lzh and .tar.gz?
- Extension
- .lzh
- .tar.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.
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/gzip
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz
- Wikipedia
- .lzh on Wikipedia
- .tar.gz on Wikipedia