A sparse extraction bug has been reported by:

add@is.rice.edu (Darren Dunham)

Star-1.0 will not extract sparse files correctly if in xstar format (default)

please apply the patch star-1.0.patch-1 to solve this problem

I found a second probblem, when extracting in non interactive mode.
If a file is not writable by the owner and the extractor is not
root, star will dump core. Please apply patch star-1.0.patch-2

If you use /usr/bin/patch on Solaris, 

cd star-1.0/star
chmod +w hole.c
patch <star-1.0.patch-1
patch <star-1.0.patch-2

If you use GNU patch

cd star-1.0
chmod +w star/hole.c
patch <star-1.0.patch-1
patch <star-1.0.patch-2


Joerg