I've written a small patch to ABCL that copies unrecognized command line arguments into ext:*command-line-argument-list*. This is analogous to SBCL's sb-ext:*posix-argv* or CLISP's ext:*argv* (but without the executable name that heads up those variables, since that's not passed in to the Java main() function). I hope you find it useful enough to merge in. --Dennis Lambe Jr. malsyned@malsyned.net P.S. I tried to send this e-mail before my mailing list registration was complete. Moderators, please feel free to disregard that in-limbo copy.