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Really? I thought that's what the page was telling me when it said .xz was a container format. In that case, its file format is extra odd!
by joosters 10y ago
Really? I thought that's what the page was telling me when it said .xz was a container format. In that case, its file format is extra odd!
- saurik 10y agoYeah: what they mean by "container format" here is similar to the usage in video compression file formats, where ".avi" doesn't imply any particular compression algorithms. An xz file is a container format which is designed for use to store another container format.