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Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 IV

Rule Four: The actual application is found in the MacOS sub-directory.

drwxrwxr-x  14 root  admin      432 Nov 29 19:35 .
drwxrwxr-x   7 root  admin      194 Nov 29 19:35 ..
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   417634 Sep  4 19:49 ACELiteCarbonLib
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  1491257 Sep  4 19:49 AGMCarbonLib
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  4227437 Sep  4 21:06 Acrobat Reader 5.0
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   180829 Sep  4 19:49 BIBCarbonLib
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  1840672 Sep  4 19:49 CoolTypeCarbonLib
drwxrwxr-x  17 root  admin      534 Nov 29 19:33 Help
drwxrwxr-x   3 root  admin      264 Nov 29 19:33 JavaScripts
drwxrwxr-x  16 root  admin      500 Nov 29 19:33 Locale
drwxrwxr-x  12 root  admin      364 Nov 29 19:31 Plug-Ins
drwxrwxr-x  20 root  admin      636 Nov 29 19:35 Resource
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin      264 Nov 29 19:33 SPPlugins
drwxrwxr-x  17 root  admin      534 Nov 29 19:33 Update

Here we can see what is evidently the executable - again it has the same name as the hive root and the empty file in the hive root - and in this case it's a svelte 4,227,437 bytes (phew).

In addition we have a number of helper files - what Windows might call DLLs. Together they're a few more megabytes. We're close to ten meg already - and all we're doin' is readin' a frikkin PDF file.

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