Changes in 0.3.4: 1. PVM log files generated by pvm_xstar are now deleted by default. 2. They may be kept, however, by specifying the -k (keep) option at launch. 3. Recommend MacPorts in docs, over Fink, for PVM binaries on Mac OS/X. 4. Add more detail to the explanations of several command-line options, especially an example of how -i may be used to customize execution. Changes in 0.3.3: 1. Improved support for log files specified with absolute path. 2. Fixed off-by-one bug in -i init script handling. Changes in 0.3.2: 1. The tests directory is no longer a no-op: it provides smoketest-style testing from the local directory (prior to install), operational testing from the installation location (after install), and can generate example PVM hosts files that can serve as user templates. 2. New command line options: -i to initialize/customize workdir & env of each parallel job -l to redirect console output to log file -nph to set the number of jobs run per host in the PVM -p to echo /the/path/to/pvm_xstar (for testing) -V to output the version 3. Improved documentation: includes additional PVM, $PATH, and ssh configuration information, describes the tests, how to customize pvm_xstar at runtime, and is now bundled in doc/pdf subdirectory. 4. More scrupulous version checking at configure time. 5. Removed ill-conceived use of shift during argument processing. Changes in 0.3.0: 1. Each pvm_xstar session now runs with a unique PVM_VMID. 2. Check for existence of hosts file before launching PVM. 3. Better handling and message feedback for startup errors. The first official tarball release was versioned 0.3.0. Prior to that beta testers used pvm_xstar versioned with datestamps, such as "Wed Nov 21 11:29:41 EST 2007".