What is the difference between .tar.lzma and .gzip?
- Extension
- .tar.lzma
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- 7-Zip
- GNU
- Description
- "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with .LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression, and thus uses the compound file extension ".tar.lzma;" 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-lzma-compressed-tar
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.lzma on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia