What is the difference between .tgz and .tar.lzma?
- Extension
- .tgz
- .tar.lzma
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- 7-Zip
- Description
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- "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-compressed
- application/x-lzma-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia
- .tar.lzma on Wikipedia