What is the difference between .tar.lz and .tar?
- Extension
- .tar.lz
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Lzip
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- 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/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia