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<blockquote data-quote="bellastrada" data-source="post: 30982" data-attributes="member: 3352">Thanks for the advices but I read that about «Pacifist» in the versiontracker comment section :««by: **Charlessoft**&nbsp; Version: 1.6.3,&nbsp; 3/31/2004 01:27PM PST&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Thulsa, have you tried downloading Pacifist and using it? Try opening Essentials.pkg with Show Package Contents and see if you can get just, say, the Mail application out. You can't as all the files are in a .pax.gz file, not just lying around in the package file. Opening it with Pacifist makes it easy to get the files you want out of the packages.BTW, Pacifist is not by the University of Berkeley. Pacifist uses a small bit of code from the source of the 'cksum' tool to get the checksum of a file when you use the &quot;Verify&quot; feature. I did this to avoid having to launch the 'cksum' tool many times, slowing down the process. The code for cksum is part of the BSD software distribution, which obligates me to give Berkeley credit in the documentation, since I use some of their code. And if you object to using anything that uses code from BSD, well, the core of Mac OS X is built upon quite a bit of BSD code. ;-)»»Conclusion IS IT WORKING OR NOT!!!B.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bellastrada, post: 30982, member: 3352"] Thanks for the advices but I read that about «Pacifist» in the versiontracker comment section : ««by: **Charlessoft** Version: 1.6.3, 3/31/2004 01:27PM PST Thulsa, have you tried downloading Pacifist and using it? Try opening Essentials.pkg with Show Package Contents and see if you can get just, say, the Mail application out. You can't as all the files are in a .pax.gz file, not just lying around in the package file. Opening it with Pacifist makes it easy to get the files you want out of the packages. BTW, Pacifist is not by the University of Berkeley. Pacifist uses a small bit of code from the source of the 'cksum' tool to get the checksum of a file when you use the "Verify" feature. I did this to avoid having to launch the 'cksum' tool many times, slowing down the process. The code for cksum is part of the BSD software distribution, which obligates me to give Berkeley credit in the documentation, since I use some of their code. And if you object to using anything that uses code from BSD, well, the core of Mac OS X is built upon quite a bit of BSD code. ;-)»» Conclusion IS IT WORKING OR NOT!!! B. [/QUOTE]

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