diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL
index 4da6f8635a..ea38c145c7 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL
@@ -80,11 +80,13 @@
 	situations that are known not to work, but it limits the hdf5
 	address space to 2GB.
 
-2.2. DEC
+2.2. COMPAQ/DEC
 	The V5.2-038 compiler (and possibly others) occasionally
 	generates incorrect code for memcpy() calls when optimizations
 	are enabled, resulting in unaligned access faults. HDF5 works
 	around the problem by casting the second argument to `char *'.
+	The fortran module (5.4.1a) fails in compiling some fortran
+	programs.  Need to use 5.5.0 or more.
 
 2.3. SGI (Irix64 6.2)
 	The Mongoose 7.00 compiler has serious optimization bugs and
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel b/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel
index 8343a3413e..41b71207af 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_parallel
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ not a fatal error for HDF5 becuase HDF5 can use other file-drivers such
 as families of files to by pass the file size limit.
 
 By default, the parallel tests use /tmp/$LOGIN as the test directory.
-This can be override by the environment variable $HDF5_PARAPREFIX.
+This can be changed by the environment variable $HDF5_PARAPREFIX.
 For example, if the tests should use directory /PFS/user/me, do
     HDF5_PARAPREFIX=/PFS/user/me
     export HDF5_PARAPREFIX
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 382b470cf7..12ae917049 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -554,6 +554,9 @@ Platforms Tested
                                 pgf90 3.1-3
   OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
                                 Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270
+  OSF1 V5.1			Compaq C V6.3-027
+  				Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877
+				MPI_64bit_R5
   SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 
   (Solaris 2.6)                 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 99/10/25 Fortran 90
                                        2.0 Patch 107356-04