3.6. Why do I get lots of 0 byte files when extracting the Unix-format archives under WinNT/2000/XP and how can I extract them properly?
The Unix-format archives contain several hardlinks. Extracting them under WinNT/2000 doesn't work properly (as links are not supported by Windows) when using common decompressors, so you will get 0 byte files instead of the links. But there is a way to extract the files properly. Download star.exe, bzip2.exe and the cygwin1.dll from
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/win32/
Put them somewhere in your path and run
star -x -bz -copylinks f=/cygdrive/driveletter/path_to_your_archive
in the directory, to which you want to extract the database.