Zip, RAR, 7z etc. store and compress the files. Tarballs work differently, tar stores the files and the second program compresses the tar as a continuous stream.
They originated in different mediums, programs like zip were born to deal with folder structures, tar was created to deal with linear tape archives (hence the name).
Zip, RAR, 7z etc. store and compress the files. Tarballs work differently, tar stores the files and the second program compresses the tar as a continuous stream.
They originated in different mediums, programs like zip were born to deal with folder structures, tar was created to deal with linear tape archives (hence the name).
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