What is the difference between .tar.lz and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.lz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- Phil Katz
- 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 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-lzip-compressed-tar
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia