diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f9863ca4..af4cbaea 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ $Id$
 
 v0.39.1		22-Oct-2003
 
+	general:
+		Make dist now creates bzip2 archives.
+
 
 v0.39.0		09-Oct-2003 - 22-Oct-2003
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 06df58f5..b4e30ff2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ OTHER		= AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING DEBUG CRON.sh FILE_ID.DIZ.in \
 		  ChangeLog_1998 ChangeLog_1999 ChangeLog_2000 ChangeLog_2001 \
 		  ChangeLog_2002 README SETUP.sh TODO UPGRADE aclocal.m4 \
 		  checkbasic config.h.in configure configure.in paths.h.in
-TARFILE		= ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}.tar.gz
+TARFILE		= ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}.tar.bz2
 
 ###############################################################################
 
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ clean:
 
 ${TARFILE}:	.filelist
 		cd ..; rm -f ${TARFILE}; \
-		${TAR} cvTf ./${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}/.filelist - | gzip >${TARFILE}
+		${TAR} cvTf ./${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}/.filelist - | bzip2 >${TARFILE}
 
 crontab:
 		sh ./CRON.sh