What is the difference between .tar.lz and .tgz?
- Extension
- .tar.lz
- .tgz
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia