Hi This is always the most difficult part! I am porting a very old Pascal program written originally in Prospero Pro-Pascal and I want to use a (relatively) platform independent compiler. Hence gpc. So a few questions - I have already searched in the info pages (aka the 400+ page manual) and found the answers to some of my questions but: 1 A simple program like: program t(Input,Output); var s:string[20]; begin read(s); writeln(s); end. when compiled (and it works) still gives a message: /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/libgpc.a(randfile.o): In function `do_seek': /home/elug/pascal-wochenende-20000729/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/p/rts/randfile.c:327: the `llseek' function may be dangerous; use `lseek64' instead. I may be running this at the weekend (RH 6.2 but gpc --version gives 2.95.2 19991024 (release) rather than anything like 20000729) but is this possibly an installation problem? 2 Is there a way of taking the command line arguments into a program? eg for a program foo.pas that compiles to a.out, I want to access argument 1 as 'something' in: ./a.out something Is the whole command line available (like $0)? I saw the demo getopt but when I tried to compile this, I was told that it couldn't find GPC (from uses GPC). Does this mean that I haven't installed it properly? gpc is in the default place (/usr/local/bin/gpc etc) Hope my questions are clear TIA John