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@@ -245,10 +245,10 @@ name of the library file (MPI_LIB).
 
 If you are installing MPI yourself, we recommend Argonne's MPICH2
 or OpenMPI.  MPICH can be downloaded from the "Argonne MPI
-site"_http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/.  OpenMPI can 
-be downloaded from the "OpenMPI site"_http://www.open-mpi.org.  
-Other MPI packages should also work. If you are running on a big 
-parallel platform, your system people or the vendor should have 
+site"_http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/.  OpenMPI can
+be downloaded from the "OpenMPI site"_http://www.open-mpi.org.
+Other MPI packages should also work. If you are running on a big
+parallel platform, your system people or the vendor should have
 already installed a version of MPI, which is likely to be faster
 than a self-installed MPICH or OpenMPI, so find out how to build
 and link with it.  If you use MPICH or OpenMPI, you will have to