What is the difference between .mslz and .tar?
- Extension
- .mslz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- MSLZ is an archive file format developed by Microsoft. It is a compressed version of the LZX compression algorithm which is used to reduce the size of files and folders. The files can be opened with the MSLZ Viewer, a free utility that is included with Microsoft Office.
- 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/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia