What is the difference between .tar and .tar.z?
- Extension
- .tar
- .tar.z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tar
- application/x-tarz
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia