What is the difference between .lzh and .xz?
- Extension
- .lzh
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Haruyasu Yoshizaki
- Tukaani
- 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.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-xz
- Wikipedia
- .lzh on Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia