What is the difference between .tar.z and .tar.lz?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .tar.lz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Lzip
- Description
- A TAR.Z file is a Unix TAR archive compressed with a standard Unix compression algorithm to save disk space. It contains one or more compressed files. The file is commonly used on Unix operating systems to archive groups of files.
- "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.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tarz
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia