What is the difference between .tar and .tar.lzo?
- Extension
- .tar
- .tar.lzo
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
- Description
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- Lzop is a file compressor very similar to gzip. lzop favors speed over compression ratio.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tar
- application/x-lzop-compressed-tar