dar support in MC later than 4.6.1?

[Paul Marwick <paulm waitrose com>]

I've been using the dar support plugin for MC produced by Guus Jansman 
for quite a while. Very useful, since I use dar for a number of backups.

It works pretty well under 4.6.1. However, under any version later than 
that ( mc-4.6.1_20070309 and 4.6.2-pre1) the behavior of the plugin has 
changed. Now it presents a long list of directories (preceded by a 
number of zeros), and while I can traverse the directory structure, I 
cannot view or extract any files, and the display doesn't make much sense.

Does anyone know of an update for the plugin? Or know how the existing 
plugin can be fixed? I'd really like to update to a more recent version 
of MC, but I need the dar support...

I've had a look through the mailing list archives, but haven't found 
anything relevant to this problem, so I guess not too many people use 
dar suppor, but I would be most grateful for any pointers.

Paul.