I'm using MetaPost 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6), and when I try to use the -output-directory option, documented in the 'mpost -help' menu, I get: mpost: unrecognized option `-output-directory=/home/ohad/' Happily, it seems this got fixed between 0.993 and the version that will be in TeX Live 2008 (1.005). Thanks for the report. karl