What is the difference between .z and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .z
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-compress
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2