--> August, 1999 Corrected problem with opt_cut initialization that only appeared with p?compfa programs. --> v3.26 July, 1999 pvcomp* programs now use the same method for working with forward and reverse strands as the standard fast*3(_t) programs. Thus, statistics for DNA sequences should be very similar for pvcompfa and fasta3 or fasta3_t. February, 1999 With release fasta32t02 of the FASTA package, the alignment routines for pvcompfa, pvcompsw, etc now work properly again. The PVM versions of the FASTA and Smith-Waterman search programs should now be functionally identical to the multithreaded (fasta3_t, ssearch3_t) and non-threaded (fasta3, ssearch3) versions. The programs have also been updated to provide similar -m 10 information to the non-pvm versions. There are some slight differences, because the pvcomp* versions are designed to work with multiple sequences. But, in general, a script that looks for /^>>>/ to start an alignment set and /^>>><< v3.23 March, 1999 Modified Makefile.pvm, showsum.c so that showsum.c is used by both the complib/_thr and pvcomplib (pvm parallel) versions. Corrected bug in reading first query for DNA sequences. --> v3.25 May, 1999 Fixed pvm_showalign.c so that FIRSTNODE (in msg.h) can be 1, rather than 0. #define FIRSTNODE 1 is recommended when the virtual machine has 8 or more nodes.