What is a .TZ file?
TZ is a tar archive compressed with Unix compress.
- Did you know
- TZ is the old shorthand for a tar.Z archive.
- The underlying Unix compress tool uses the LZW algorithm, whose patents once hampered its free use.
- It was largely superseded by gzip, which adopted a patent-free algorithm in its place.
- What Analyser reads
- Open more archives, packages and installers: macOS XAR/.pkg/.mpkg installers (member list), Windows .msu updates (CAB), Snap SquashFS packages, Flatpak bundles, StuffIt (.sit/.sitx), lzop (.lzo) and Brotli (.br) streams, Java Web Start (.jnlp), and the .tlz/.tbz/.tz compressed-tarball shorthands.
- Depth of analysis
- .TZ is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .TZ file
- Drag a .TZ file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.