Here is PAR 0.81, the "not to be stopped by showstoppers" release,
freshly uploaded to CPAN:

    http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.81.tar.gz
    MD5 (PAR-0.81.tar.gz) = 3ad86935815ee7b56bcd78b10e7cfcbf

Pre-built Win32 binaries may be downloaded from CPAN and
http://aut.dyndns.org/par/.  If you downloaded the ".par" files manually,
you will need to download and unpack PAR-0.81.tar.gz, put the prebuilt .par
file inside the unpacked PAR-0.81 directory, then type "perl Makefile.PL".

I'd have to apologize to Edward Peschko because I still did not get
around to put OOified "pp" to this release, due to the high (and serious)
concentration of showstopping bugs left in 0.80.  As a result, 0.81 became
a "bugfix, porting and maintainence only" release, and all feature
developments will begin at 0.82, now all the showstoppers have been resolved.

...hmm, famous last words? ;-)

[Changes for 0.81 - May 23, 2004]

* New Features

    - Regained support for Win9x, Cygwin and MinGW.

    - PAR now supports 64-bit platforms, such as Tru64 and AIX.

    - Cygwin and MinGW can now build EXEs with icons, too; MinGW can update
      the icons, but Cygwin cannot.

    - Newly supported modules: Pod::Usage, DBIx::SearchBuilder,
      DBIx::ReportBuilder, SVK::Command, SVN::Core, and the ':encoding()'
      IO discipline.

* Bug fixes

    - On non-Win32 systems, invoking pp-generated executable from PATH
      did not work.

    - Standalone executables were clobbered by existing perl environments
      with an identical "auto/IO" libpath as the author's environment.

    - Standalone executables did not work on systems with an unset
      dynamic load path environment variable (eg. LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

    - "pp -p -o multi.par 1.pl 2.pl; parl multi.par 1.pl" now works.

    - $ENV{PATH} and $ENV{TEMP} were truncated at first path delimiter.

    - "pp -f Bleach" did not work for ActivePerl on Win32.

    - Windows 9x systems were generating invalid cache directory names.

    - $ENV{path} is also recognized as $ENV{PATH} for Win32.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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