What is the difference between .tar and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Phil Katz
- 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 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-tar
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tar
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia