- Extension
- .z
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- It is an archive file that uses simple compression to compress files in the Unix OS. The files can easily be decompressed on the same OS.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compress
- application/x-tar
