What is the difference between .tar.bz and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.bz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- bzip2
- Phil Katz
- Description
- This is a compressed archive in the TAR container with the help of the BZIP tool. It was created for use in Unix systems. The TAR container combines several files into one archive that’s placed in a TBZ compressed file. They’re used as installation packets in the installers of some operating systems.
- 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-bzip-compressed-tar
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.bz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia