- Extension
- .tar.lz
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- GNU
- 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.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-gzip