diff --git a/development/ChangeLog b/development/ChangeLog
index 015ea0082b..789fbe0ce1 100644
--- a/development/ChangeLog
+++ b/development/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+
+2002-06-26  André Pönitz <poenitz@gmx.de>
+
+	* development/Win32/lyxwin32.c: Win32 specific patch from Claus Hentschel
+
 2002-06-05  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@freesurf.fr>
 
 	* tools/lxtl.sh: remove unused file
diff --git a/development/Win32/lyxwin32.c b/development/Win32/lyxwin32.c
index 404f2cff46..060fddc579 100644
--- a/development/Win32/lyxwin32.c
+++ b/development/Win32/lyxwin32.c
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+/* This is the wrapper program for LyX on Win32. Using this
+ * wrapper program no DOS window will be present running LyX.
+ * The bad side of this: no error output could be seen ;-)
+ *
+ * compile this sourec with following options set:
+ *
+ *    gcc lyxwin32.c -O2 -o lyxwin32 -static -Wall -Wno-format \
+ *                   -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes \
+ *                   -mwindows -e _mainCRTStartup
+ *
+ * Claus Hentschel, 2002-01-17
+ */
 #include <stdio.h>            /* standard io library */
 #include <stdlib.h>           /* standard library */
 #include <unistd.h>           /* sleep , fork & exec */
@@ -7,8 +19,8 @@
 int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
 {
 	char cmd [32000] = "lyx " ;  /* user command */
-	char *nargs [4 ] = {  /* execute with login /bin/bash */
-		"/bin/bash",
+	char *nargs [5 ] = {  /* execute with login /bin/bash */
+		"/bin/bash", "--login",
 		"-c" , cmd ,
 		NULL
 	} ;
@@ -26,12 +38,12 @@ int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
 		i ++ ;
 	}
 
-	strcat ( cmd, "</dev/null 2>/dev/null");
+	strcat ( cmd, "</dev/null 2>/tmp/lyx.out");
 
 	fprintf ( stderr , "Command is: |%s|\n" , cmd );
 	execv ( "/bin/bash" , nargs ) ;  /* exec sub command */
 
-	/* Oops: we should never reach here */
+	/* we should never reach here */
 	perror ( "Execute failed") ;
-	return ( 1 ) ; /* exit with an error */
+	return ( 0 ) ; /* exit with no error */
 }