diff --git a/po/ChangeLog b/po/ChangeLog
index 06f3dfa0a..77459ea58 100644
--- a/po/ChangeLog
+++ b/po/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-01-04  Kjartan Maraas  <kmaraas@online.no>
+
+	* update.sh: A little script that lets people
+	update the .pot file without makefiles etc.
+
 2000-01-03  Fatih Demir <kabalak@gmx.net>
 
 	* tr.po: Added a first-translation try ...
diff --git a/po/update.sh b/po/update.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e3e69d59f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/update.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+xgettext --default-domain=mc --directory=.. \
+  --add-comments --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ \
+  --files-from=./POTFILES.in \
+&& test ! -f mc.po \
+   || ( rm -f ./mc.pot \
+    && mv mc.po ./mc.pot )