diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 39eaed5e..491a0fd2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ Christian Jacobsen <christian.jacobsen@stageholding.de>
 Andreas Mair <Andreas.Mair@linogate.com>
  for reporting a short display of the main menu if a plugin displays its own OSD and
  is started through a user defined key macro
+ for reporting a problem with extremely long summary fields in timers
 
 Olivier Jacques <jacquesolivier@hotmail.com>)
  for translating OSD texts to the French language
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 4859512e..d242c4a0 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3924,3 +3924,8 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Sascha Volkenandt).
 - Fixed a memory leak in cString::operator=() (reported by Sascha Volkenandt).
 - Updated the Dutch OSD texts (thanks to Maarten Wisse).
+- cReadLine now dynamically allocates its buffer, so that it can handle lines
+  of any length.
+- Changed cConfig::Load() to use cReadLine instead of a fixed buffer (thanks
+  to Andreas Mair for reporting a problem with extremely long summary fields
+  in timers).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index d7022901..ef84cf97 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 1.233 2005/11/04 14:18:59 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.234 2005/11/04 15:55:05 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -102,20 +102,21 @@ public:
        isyslog("loading %s", fileName);
        FILE *f = fopen(fileName, "r");
        if (f) {
+          char *s;
           int line = 0;
-          char buffer[MAXPARSEBUFFER];
+          cReadLine ReadLine;
           result = true;
-          while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), f) > 0) {
+          while ((s = ReadLine.Read(f)) != NULL) {
                 line++;
                 if (allowComments) {
-                   char *p = strchr(buffer, '#');
+                   char *p = strchr(s, '#');
                    if (p)
                       *p = 0;
                    }
-                stripspace(buffer);
-                if (!isempty(buffer)) {
+                stripspace(s);
+                if (!isempty(s)) {
                    T *l = new T;
-                   if (l->Parse(buffer))
+                   if (l->Parse(s))
                       Add(l);
                    else {
                       esyslog("ERROR: error in %s, line %d", fileName, line);
diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c
index e0a9ecf5..832f4293 100644
--- a/tools.c
+++ b/tools.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.c 1.102 2005/11/04 14:26:39 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.c 1.103 2005/11/04 16:33:18 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tools.h"
@@ -610,12 +610,24 @@ cString TimeString(time_t t)
 
 // --- cReadLine -------------------------------------------------------------
 
+cReadLine::cReadLine(void)
+{
+  size = 0;
+  buffer = NULL;
+}
+
+cReadLine::~cReadLine()
+{
+  free(buffer);
+}
+
 char *cReadLine::Read(FILE *f)
 {
-  if (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), f) > 0) {
-     int l = strlen(buffer) - 1;
-     if (l >= 0 && buffer[l] == '\n')
-        buffer[l] = 0;
+  int n = getline(&buffer, &size, f);
+  if (n > 0) {
+     n--;
+     if (buffer[n] == '\n')
+        buffer[n] = 0;
      return buffer;
      }
   return NULL;
diff --git a/tools.h b/tools.h
index f348b2e5..cc4c9e30 100644
--- a/tools.h
+++ b/tools.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.h 1.81 2005/10/31 12:54:36 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.h 1.82 2005/11/04 17:05:35 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __TOOLS_H
@@ -135,8 +135,11 @@ public:
 
 class cReadLine {
 private:
-  char buffer[MAXPARSEBUFFER];
+  size_t size;
+  char *buffer;
 public:
+  cReadLine(void);
+  ~cReadLine();
   char *Read(FILE *f);
   };