diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index ae874689..13436c66 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-08-03  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
+
+	* init.c (cmd_file): Allocate RESULT correctly.
+
 2002-07-24  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
 
 	* recur.c (retrieve_tree): Check whether downloaded_html_set is
diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
index 2afa3007..dec37441 100644
--- a/src/init.c
+++ b/src/init.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ cmd_file (const char *com, const char *val, void *closure)
 	;
 #endif
 
-      result = xmalloc (homelen + 1 + strlen (val));
+      result = xmalloc (homelen + 1 + strlen (val) + 1);
       memcpy (result, home, homelen);
       result[homelen] = '/';
       strcpy (result + homelen + 1, val);