Hi everybody. I have a plan to write standalone applications in LUA. For this, I need a module handling program's arguments 1) compatible with Utility Argument Syntax http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02 2) allowing long options compatible with getopt_long(3) To me, getopt from stdlib looks like a mess :-( , there are too much of dependencies and too much of code. Documentation is also unclear. http://lua-users.org/wiki/AlternativeGetOpt doesn't look good too. Any help? -- Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.