Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:42:40AM +0100, Jan Fader wrote:
> 
>>Hello archlinux-user
>>
>>Am Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:13:13AM +0200, hat Dimitrios Apostolou geschrieben:
>>
>>>I currently see this very strange behaviour on two different archlinux 
>>>systems. When I run whatis or apropos, nomatter what the argument is, at 
>>>the end of the output I always get an "X" character.
>>>
>>>Anybody else experiencing this?
>>
>>I get the 'X' character at the end of the output too.
> 
> 
> Me too!
> 
> Just remade the whatis database, still there. Please post if you find a
> remedy.
> 

I just found out it is a bug in mawk. A workaround, not a solution, is 
to use gawk:

ln -sf /usr/bin/gawk /bin/awk
makewhatis


Dimitris


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