What is the difference between .scap and .tar?
- Extension
- .scap
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Firmware
- Other
- Developer
- Intel Corporation
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- The SCAP file format (.scap) is associated with EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface), which is a specification designed to replace the older BIOS firmware interface used by most computers. The EFI firmware is responsible for booting up the system, and it provides a more modern, flexible, and secure way of managing the boot process compared to traditional BIOS. An SCAP file is essentially an EFI Firmware File that contains firmware update information or data intended for the EFI environment.
- 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/efi
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .scap on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia