Hi, The page at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/program_options/howto.html#id2... says that the "split_winmain function is a portable mechanism provided by the library." Does that mean that the same code (containing the split_winmain function, that is) will also run on Linux, for example? I guess it would return normal args on Linux. Could you elaborate please? In addition, could you please post a link to a cookbook-type recipe for parsing windows command-line (that parses linux/unix command line as well)? Are there any tutorials to get up to speed with program options - especially, the windows command-line parsing stuff? Best regards, Asif