diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5e8f40d5b..b4b3e944e 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ $Id$
 $Source$
 
 2001-08-04  Loïc Chapeaux  <lolo@phpheaven.net>
+	* config.inc.php3, db_details.php3, Documentation.html,
+	  tbl_properties.php3: added two directives to disable the use of
+	  compression for dump files.
 	* Documentation.html: fixed some typos thanks to Larry Meaney.
 	* lang/chinese_big5.inc.php3: updated thanks to
 	  Taiyen Hung ¬x®õ¤¸<yen789@pchome.com.tw>.
diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html
index 49c485df6..8ce73c84c 100755
--- a/Documentation.html
+++ b/Documentation.html
@@ -472,6 +472,16 @@
         <br /><br />
     </dd>
 
+    <dt>
+        <b>$cfgGZipDump </b>boolean<br />
+        <b>$cfgBZipDump </b>boolean
+    </dt>
+    <dd>
+        Defines whether to allow the use of gzip/bzip compression when creating
+        a dump file or not.
+        <br /><br />
+    </dd>
+
     <dt><b>$cfgManualBase</b> string</dt>
     <dd>
         If set to an URL which points to the MySQL documentation, appropriate
diff --git a/config.inc.php3 b/config.inc.php3
index ec7717f33..24a468d55 100755
--- a/config.inc.php3
+++ b/config.inc.php3
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ $cfgSkipLockedTables      = FALSE;  // mark used tables, make possible to show
 $cfgMaxRows               = 30;
 $cfgOrder                 = 'ASC';
 $cfgOBGzip 		          = TRUE;   // GZIP output buffering
+$cfgGZipDump              = TRUE;   // Allow the use of gzip/bzip compression
+$cfgBZipDump              = TRUE;   // for dump files
 
 
 /**
diff --git a/db_details.php3 b/db_details.php3
index 3383ec605..92b6e7a40 100755
--- a/db_details.php3
+++ b/db_details.php3
@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ if ($num_tables > 0) {
     <?php
     // gzip and bzip2 encode features
     if (PMA_INT_VERSION >= 40004) {
-        $is_gzip = @function_exists('gzencode');
-        $is_bzip = @function_exists('bzcompress');
+        $is_gzip = ($cfgGZipDump && @function_exists('gzencode'));
+        $is_bzip = ($cfgBZipDump && @function_exists('bzcompress'));
         if ($is_gzip || $is_bzip) {
             echo "\n" . '                (';
             if ($is_gzip) {
diff --git a/tbl_properties.php3 b/tbl_properties.php3
index 947823c93..eac19175c 100755
--- a/tbl_properties.php3
+++ b/tbl_properties.php3
@@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ echo "\n";
 <?php
 // gzip and bzip2 encode features
 if (PMA_INT_VERSION >= 40004) {
-    $is_gzip = @function_exists('gzencode');
-    $is_bzip = @function_exists('bzcompress');
+    $is_gzip = ($cfgGZipDump && @function_exists('gzencode'));
+    $is_bzip = ($cfgBZipDump && @function_exists('bzcompress'));
     if ($is_gzip || $is_bzip) {
         echo "\n" . '                    (' . "\n";
         if ($is_gzip) {