diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index cfac84a725..1af82a8e74 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -16732,3 +16732,9 @@ Jeff  	25 Aug 2004
 
     sched/
 	file_deleter.C
+
+David  27 Aug 2004
+    - add "use bytes" pragma to grep_logs (from Carl C.)
+
+    tools/
+        grep_logs
diff --git a/tools/grep_logs b/tools/grep_logs
index bfeeb80050..2672f507d4 100755
--- a/tools/grep_logs
+++ b/tools/grep_logs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
+use bytes;
 
 my $html = 0;
 my $lines = 0;