A couple of days ago Michael Gross asked if we knew “a product or products that would create a searchable text file list of the archive and then be able to browse and extract individual files”. We have created a couple of applets, small pieces of software designed to perform this task.
Catalog, just as you would expect, creates an index of the contents of any archives dropped on its icon. The resulting files can be placed in a folder for future reference, and searched using either Spotlight or your favourite text editing tool.
GetSome does the remaining part: once you found out which archive contains the files you are looking for, you can drag-and-drop it over this applet and easily extract just the parts that you need.
Just as you would expect, resource forks are also extracted and preserved. 