.TAR.BZ2 File Extension
File TypeCompressed Tarball File
| Developer | The GNU Project |
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| Category | Compressed Files |
| Format | Binary |
What is a TAR.BZ2 file?
TAR archive compressed with the BZ2 compression algorithm; contains one or more compressed files; commonly used for Linux software package distributions.
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The BZ2 compression algorithm incorporates the Burrows-Wheeler compression algorithm as well as Run-Length Encoding (RLE) for high levels of compression. .TAR files are compressed using this algorithm much like .TAR.GZ files.
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Updated 8/24/2015