What is the difference between .tar.7z and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.7z
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Igor Pavlov
- Phil Katz
- Description
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-7z-compressed
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia