What is the difference between .tar.z and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- 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-tarz
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia