diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e20b2c36de..55aa6783c1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-07-17  Juergen Vigna  <jug@sad.it>
+
+	* src/table.C (Read): small fix for reading tabular-code with MS-DOS
+	encoded .lyx-files.
+
 2000-07-01  Dekel Tsur  <dekel@math.tau.ac.il>
 
 	* src/text.C (TransformChar): Changed to work correctly with
diff --git a/src/table.C b/src/table.C
index 41098e6e2b..8c61c728de 100644
--- a/src/table.C
+++ b/src/table.C
@@ -977,7 +977,8 @@ void LyXTable::Read(istream & is)
 	int h = 0;
 	
 	string s;
-	getline(is, s);
+	while(s.empty())
+	    getline(is, s);
 	if (s.length() > 8)
 		version = atoi(s.c_str() + 8);
 	else