diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 30398d7b5c..4e40deedfa 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-03-07  Dekel Tsur  <dekelts@tau.ac.il>
+
+	* LaTeX.C (run): Fix a bug where the DVI file was not updated due
+	to an old format .dep file.
+
 2003-03-07  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
 
 	* BufferView_pimpl.C (dispatch):
diff --git a/src/DepTable.C b/src/DepTable.C
index efb487e669..a23c091660 100644
--- a/src/DepTable.C
+++ b/src/DepTable.C
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ void DepTable::write(string const & f) const
 }
 
 
-void DepTable::read(string const & f)
+bool DepTable::read(string const & f)
 {
 	ifstream ifs(f.c_str());
 	string nome;
@@ -252,4 +252,5 @@ void DepTable::read(string const & f)
 		}
 		deplist[nome] = di;
 	}
+	return deplist.size();
 }
diff --git a/src/DepTable.h b/src/DepTable.h
index 8198bec144..9efe5c7612 100644
--- a/src/DepTable.h
+++ b/src/DepTable.h
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ public:
 
 	///
 	void write(string const & f) const;
-	///
-	void read(string const & f);
+	/// returns true if dep file was read successfully
+	bool read(string const & f);
 	/// returns true if any of the files has changed
 	bool sumchange() const;
 	/// return true if fil has changed.
diff --git a/src/LaTeX.C b/src/LaTeX.C
index 69f46d63f2..65f45b9458 100644
--- a/src/LaTeX.C
+++ b/src/LaTeX.C
@@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ int LaTeX::run(TeXErrors & terr, LyXFunc * lfun)
 	if (had_depfile) {
 		lyxerr[Debug::DEPEND] << "Dependency file exists" << endl;
 		// Read the dep file:
-		head.read(depfile);
+		had_depfile = head.read(depfile);
+	}
+
+	if (had_depfile) {
 		// Update the checksums
 		head.update();
 		// Can't just check if anything has changed because it might have aborted
@@ -201,7 +204,7 @@ int LaTeX::run(TeXErrors & terr, LyXFunc * lfun)
 			run_bibtex = true;
 	} else
 		lyxerr[Debug::DEPEND]
-			<< "Dependency file does not exist" << endl;
+			<< "Dependency file does not exist, or has wrong format" << endl;
 
 	/// We scan the aux file even when had_depfile = false,
 	/// because we can run pdflatex on the file after running latex on it,