What is the difference between .lzo and .tar?
- Extension
- .lzo
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- An archive file format compressed with lzop, based on the LZO (Lempel-Ziv-Oberhume) compression codec. It is similar to .Gzip but allows a higher compression ratio and faster decompression.
- 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-lzop
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .lzo on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia