What is the difference between .tar.z and .tar.lzma?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .tar.lzma
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- 7-Zip
- 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 .LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression, and thus uses the compound file extension ".tar.lzma;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tarz
- application/x-lzma-compressed-tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .tar.lzma on Wikipedia