diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 8e16700e..95009b85 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-05-14  Bill Richardson  <bill@riverstonenet.com>
+
+	* ftp.c (getftp): Don't ftruncate stdout.
+
+	* http.c (gethttp): Don't ftruncate stdout.
+
 2002-05-09  Ian Abbott  <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
 
 	* cmpt.c (strptime_internal): Synched with glibc-2.1.3.
diff --git a/src/ftp.c b/src/ftp.c
index ebddf3a0..c63ef827 100644
--- a/src/ftp.c
+++ b/src/ftp.c
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ Error in server response, closing control connection.\n"));
       /* Rewind the output document if the download starts over and if
 	 this is the first download.  See gethttp() for a longer
 	 explanation.  */
-      if (!restval && global_download_count == 0)
+      if (!restval && global_download_count == 0 && opt.dfp != stdout)
 	{
 	  /* This will silently fail for streams that don't correspond
 	     to regular files, but that's OK.  */
diff --git a/src/http.c b/src/http.c
index b10960ac..9fb0f8e5 100644
--- a/src/http.c
+++ b/src/http.c
@@ -1508,8 +1508,12 @@ Refusing to truncate existing file `%s'.\n\n"), *hs->local_file);
 
          #### A possible solution to this would be to remember the
 	 file position in the output document and to seek to that
-	 position, instead of rewinding.  */
-      if (!hs->restval && global_download_count == 0)
+	 position, instead of rewinding.
+
+         We don't truncate stdout, since that breaks
+	 "wget -O - [...] >> foo".
+      */
+      if (!hs->restval && global_download_count == 0 && opt.dfp != stdout)
 	{
 	  /* This will silently fail for streams that don't correspond
 	     to regular files, but that's OK.  */