diff --git a/tools/wrc/CHANGES b/tools/wrc/CHANGES
index c51d56219f6..30700f0a665 100644
--- a/tools/wrc/CHANGES
+++ b/tools/wrc/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Version 1.0.3 (02-Nov-1998)
+- Bugfix in write_name_str() [writeres.c] where the length byte/word was
+  wrongly counted in the length of the string.
+  Thanks to Ulrich Weigand <weigand@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
+
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version 1.0.2 (20-Jun-1998)
 - Started this file
diff --git a/tools/wrc/wrc.h b/tools/wrc/wrc.h
index 371b965a96a..2985c2b467f 100644
--- a/tools/wrc/wrc.h
+++ b/tools/wrc/wrc.h
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 #include "wrctypes.h"
 #endif
 
-#define WRC_VERSION	"1.0.2"
-#define WRC_RELEASEDATE	"(20-Jun-1998)"
+#define WRC_VERSION	"1.0.3"
+#define WRC_RELEASEDATE	"(02-Nov-1998)"
 #define WRC_FULLVERSION WRC_VERSION " " WRC_RELEASEDATE
 
 /* Only used in heavy debugging sessions */
diff --git a/tools/wrc/writeres.c b/tools/wrc/writeres.c
index ef176131731..ef02d4ccf96 100644
--- a/tools/wrc/writeres.c
+++ b/tools/wrc/writeres.c
@@ -208,14 +208,15 @@ void write_name_str(FILE *fp, name_id_t *nid)
 
 	if(!win32 && nid->name.s_name->type == str_char)
 	{
-		res.size = strlen(nid->name.s_name->str.cstr) + 1;
+		res.size = strlen(nid->name.s_name->str.cstr);
 		if(res.size > 254)
 			error("Can't write strings larger than 254 bytes");
 		if(res.size == 0)
 			internal_error(__FILE__, __LINE__, "Attempt to write empty string");
 		res.dataidx = 0;
-		res.data = (char *)xmalloc(res.size);
+		res.data = (char *)xmalloc(res.size + 1);
 		res.data[0] = (char)res.size;
+		res.size++;	/* We need to write the lenth byte as well */
 		strcpy(res.data+1, nid->name.s_name->str.cstr);
 		write_s_res(fp, &res);
 		free(res.data);
@@ -246,16 +247,17 @@ void write_name_str(FILE *fp, name_id_t *nid)
 	}
 	else  if(win32 && nid->name.s_name->type == str_unicode)
 	{
-		res.size = wstrlen(nid->name.s_name->str.wstr) + 1;
+		res.size = wstrlen(nid->name.s_name->str.wstr);
 		if(res.size > 65534)
 			error("Can't write strings larger than 65534 bytes");
 		if(res.size == 0)
 			internal_error(__FILE__, __LINE__, "Attempt to write empty string");
 		res.dataidx = 0;
-		res.data = (char *)xmalloc(res.size * 2);
-		((short *)res.data)[0] = (char)res.size;
+		res.data = (char *)xmalloc((res.size + 1) * 2);
+		((short *)res.data)[0] = (short)res.size;
 		wstrcpy((short *)(res.data+2), nid->name.s_name->str.wstr);
 		res.size *= 2; /* Function writes bytes, not shorts... */
+		res.size += 2; /* We need to write the length word as well */
 		write_s_res(fp, &res);
 		free(res.data);
 	}