- Extension
- .tar.lz
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- Julian Seward
- Description
- "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with Lzip, a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm, and therefore uses the compound file extension ".tar.lz;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-bzip2