diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 357c0152..b3c5ea08 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Jan 18 16:19:47 CET 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
+
+	* xmlIO.c: Gary Pennington <Gary.Pennington@uk.sun.com> fix
+	  for xmlGzfileOpen() bug
+
 Thu Jan 18 13:11:50 CET 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
 
 	* xpath.c: removed an error found by XSLT usage
diff --git a/xmlIO.c b/xmlIO.c
index a7c288ca..38de6592 100644
--- a/xmlIO.c
+++ b/xmlIO.c
@@ -400,11 +400,11 @@ xmlGzfileOpen (const char *filename) {
     if (!strncmp(filename, "file://localhost", 16))
 	path = &filename[16];
     else if (!strncmp(filename, "file:///", 8))
-	path = &filename[8];
+	path = &filename[7];
     else 
 	path = filename;
 
-    fd = gzopen(filename, "rb");
+    fd = gzopen(path, "rb");
     return((void *) fd);
 }