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On 07/09/2015 04:08, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:
>
>> While this is still the topic, is there a way to tell GCC to only talk
>> about x86_64 options in the man page (or in its CLI online help),
>> rather than *ALL* supported architectures ? TIA & have a good one.
>
> The full form of the documentation is in an info file. Type "info gcc"
> to get it. If you use emacs, you'll find its info browser is better than
> the command line version. In fact, if you don't use emacs, you might be
> best off with an online version, such as from
>      https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/

I also find the web view of man pages useful for larger ones like gcc
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

I always change it to "release and ports" so you search man pages of
all available ports - can help to find ports that you want to install.

-- 
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Shane Ambler