POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation

Star is a tar like archiver - TAR stands for Tape ARchiver. Star is the
fastest known implementation of a tar archiver.

Features:

- FIFO to keep the tape streaming.

- remote tape support

- accurate sparse files (if the OS supports it).

- pattern matcher to archive/extract a subset of files.

- user tailorable interface for comparing tar archives against file
   trees.

- path names up to 1024 Bytes may be archived.

- stores/restores all 3 times of a file (even creation time). With
POSIX.1-2001 the times are in nanosecond granularity.