diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d61a42b297e3d39dd77ca5c25471ab5c6a2ac142..bcb0cf864949f97dd8ffc5dd7b61057c43b961ae 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel (2 February 2006)
+- Make --limit-rate [num] mean bytes. It used to be that but it broke in my
+  change done in November 2005.
+
 Daniel (30 January 2006)
 - Added CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE to libcurl. Set with the
   curl tool with --local-port. Plain and simply set the range of ports to bind
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index ef9589cb964d44cc95428ea7ff2c450d8efb0084..899f366e6cba709145201db5873f951d7acf3961 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o plain --limit-rate [num] means bytes
  o re-creating a dead connection is no longer counted internally as a followed
    redirect and thus prevents a weird error that would occur if a FTP
    connection died on an attempted re-use
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 6651bcf9a867bf26d378539c6424fabb6df4000b..44471be40d0b6648a227055d8b5549358a7d2f30 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ static ParameterError getparameter(char *flag, /* f or -long-flag */
           curl_off_t value = curlx_strtoofft(nextarg, &unit, 0);
 
           if(!*unit)
-            unit="b";
+            unit=(char *)"b";
           else if(strlen(unit) > 1)
             unit=(char *)"w"; /* unsupported */