What is the difference between .lzma and .tar?
- Extension
- .lzma
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- 7-Zip
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- A compressed file format that uses LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression for higher compression ratio and fast decompression. Mainly used by 7-Zip file archivers.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzma
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.lzma
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .lzma on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia