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The Bloat Goes On - Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 X

Here's what happens in the AcroForm sub-directory, way way down in the Acrobat hive.

Acrobat Reader 5.0/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/AcroForm:
total 2144
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin      264 Nov 29 19:33 .
drwxrwxr-x  12 root  admin      364 Nov 29 19:31 ..
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  1004177 Sep  4 19:49 Acrofill
drwxrwxr-x  16 root  admin      500 Nov 29 19:33 Locale

At a megabyte, Acrofill is a good fill of something or other, and then there's yet another Locale sub-directory.

Acrobat Reader 5.0/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/AcroForm/Locale:
total 2424
drwxrwxr-x  16 root  admin  500 Nov 29 19:33 .
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin   92 Nov 29 19:33 ..
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF CHS
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF CHT
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF DAN
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF DEU
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF ESP
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF FRA
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF ITA
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF JPN
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF KOR
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF NLD
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF NOR
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF PTB
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF SUO
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    0 Sep  4 19:49 AF SVE

Empty files again. But turn the page - we're not nearly through yet.

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