I would rather that liblouis did not use the getopt_long function, since it is not portable beyond Gnu systems. Samuel answered my question about mingw. I'll see what the problem with help2man was again. John -- My websites: GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com/godtouches Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com