Here's a patch that attempts to add star filesystem support. Which is fairly
important IMHO now that Fedora is using selinux (or anything that uses extended
attributes).

Star also seems very forgiving; allowing the same view/extract command to work
across native archives or those compressed with various programs.

However, I couldn't get #utar to work so had to write the little #ustar script;
which is dog slow. So I'm hearby requesting a new feature: can the #utar extfs
be made to extract from starchives that contain selinux security descriptors?

Hello Curtis,

thanks for the patch. I sent it upstream to let it be discussed there directly:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2005-December/msg00013.html