diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 44e5be7bb..9db5879f2 100755
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-11-21  Carsten Dominik  <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
 
+	* org-exp.el (org-export-as-ascii): Remove the "\\" forced
+	line break indicators.
+
 	* org.el (org-ido-completing-read): Remove the "i:" prefix for
 	ido-completion propts.
 
diff --git a/lisp/org-exp.el b/lisp/org-exp.el
index e7ca2b9e9..8d43f8344 100644
--- a/lisp/org-exp.el
+++ b/lisp/org-exp.el
@@ -2434,6 +2434,9 @@ underlined headlines.  The default is 3."
 		   "\n") "\n")))
        (t
 	(setq line (org-fix-indentation line org-ascii-current-indentation))
+	;; Remove forced line breaks
+	(if (string-match "\\\\\\\\[ \t]*$" line)
+	    (setq line (replace-match "" t t line)))
 	(if (and org-export-with-fixed-width
 		 (string-match "^\\([ \t]*\\)\\(:\\)" line))
 	    (setq line (replace-match "\\1" nil nil line)))