What is the difference between .rar and .gz?
- Extension
- .rar
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Eugene Roshal
- The GNU Project
- Description
- A RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-rar-compressed
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.rar
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .rar on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia