What is the difference between .rz and .tar?
- Extension
- .rz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Andrew Tridgell
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- It's an archive file compressed using rzip which is based on bzip2 compression that compresses data in 2 stages that is: file encoding and compression.
- 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-rzip
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .rz on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia