heh or just edit the lines 68, 69 in /usr/sbin/makewhatis

On 12/5/05, Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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