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- First, different operating systems use different internal file formats for text files, which form the bulk of the files in the site. This system knows these formats and can both recognize and produce them as it performs the various deployment operations. Binary zip formats cannot change the formats as they gather and then distribute files; thus, the user is required to use a separate process to do the text-line format conversions.
- Second, the authoring facilities of this system produce outputs which contain many files. It makes this operation easier to manage if the authors can produce single files using this text-based format that can then deployed once they have been produced and accepted.
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What is a Bundle File?
Bundle files are the self-extracting text archives produced by the translation process.
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