Red Hat Diaries/0015

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 II

Rule Three: The fun stuff starts in the Contents sub-directory.

drwxrwxr-x   7 root  admin   264 Nov 29 19:35 .
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin    92 Nov 29 19:35 ..
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  3052 Sep  4 19:49 Info-macos.plist
drwxrwxr-x  14 root  admin   432 Nov 29 19:35 MacOS
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin     9 Sep  4 19:49 PkgInfo
drwxrwxr-x  22 root  admin   704 Nov 29 19:35 Resources
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin   466 Sep  7 17:02 version.plist

Before we get to Rule Four, let's work backwards from the above list. The Resources sub-directory is curious to say the least.

drwxrwxr-x  22 root  admin    704 Nov 29 19:35 .
drwxrwxr-x   7 root  admin    194 Nov 29 19:35 ..
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  70852 Sep  4 19:49 Acrobat.icns
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 Danish.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 Dutch.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 English.lproj
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   2296 Sep  4 19:49 FDF.icns
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 Finnish.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 French.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 German.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 Italian.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 Japanese.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 Korean.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 Norwegian.lproj
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  67118 Sep  4 19:49 PDF.icns
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 Portuguese.lproj
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   2296 Sep  4 19:49 RMF.icns
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  7 17:02 Spanish.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 Swedish.lproj
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   2296 Sep  4 19:49 xFDF.icns
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 zh_CN.lproj
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  admin    264 Sep  4 20:48 zh_TW.lproj

The ICNS files are icon files ('ICon NextStep'); the LPROJ 'localisation projects'. 130KB for icons already? (This 'application' has a lot more icons and images hanging around - just you wait.) But the big surprise is what happens with all these LPROG sub-directories. Turn the page.

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