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 Mercury installs fine out-of-the-box on HPUX 10.20, according to
 Rodney Brown <rodneybrown@pmsc.com>.  However, you may need to
 use an egcs release (see <http://egcs.cygnus.com>) instead of
-standard gcc.  I belive Rodney Brown used an egcs snapshot
-slightly prior to egcs version 1.1, so it should probably work
-fine with egcs version 1.1.
+standard gcc.  Rodney Brown used egcs 1.1.