diff -Naur minicom-2.6.2.orig/man/minicom.1 minicom-2.6.2/man/minicom.1

--- minicom-2.6.2.orig/man/minicom.1	2012-09-02 19:29:30.000000000 +0200

+++ minicom-2.6.2/man/minicom.1	2013-07-31 14:08:12.653963661 +0200

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

 .\" It may be distributed under the GNU Public License, version 2, or

 .\" any higher version.  See section COPYING of the GNU Public license

 .\" for conditions under which this file may be redistributed.

-.TH MINICOM 1 "$Date: 2012-09" "User's Manual" "Version 2.6.1"

+.TH MINICOM 1 "July 2013" "User's Manual" "Version 2.6.2"

 .SH NAME

 minicom \- friendly serial communication program

 .SH SYNOPSIS

@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@

 minicom \- friendly serial communication program

 .SH SYNOPSIS

 .B minicom

-.RI "[\-somMlwz8] [\-c on|off] [\-S script] [\-d entry]"

-.br

-.in 15

-.RI "[\-a on|off] [\-t term] [\-p pty] [\-C capturefile] [" configuration ]

+.RI "[options] [" configuration ]

 .SH DESCRIPTION

 .B minicom

 is a communication program which somewhat resembles the shareware

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

 configurations, and more.

 .SH COMMAND-LINE

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-s

+.B \-s, --setup

 .BR S etup.

 Root edits the system-wide defaults in /etc/minirc.dfl with this option. 

 When it is used, minicom does 

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

 because your system has changed, or for the first time you run

 minicom. For most systems, reasonable defaults are already compiled in.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-o

+.B \-o, --noinit

 Do not initialize. Minicom will skip the initialization code.  This

 option is handy if you quit from minicom without resetting, and

 then want to restart a session. It is potentially dangerous though: no

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@

 it is assumed, that users who are given access to a modem are

 responsible enough for their actions.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-m

+.B \-m, --metakey

 Override command-key with the Meta or ALT key. This is the default in 1.80

 and it can also be configured in one of minicom's menus, but if you use 

 different terminals all the time, of which some don't have a Meta or ALT key,

@@ -51,39 +51,39 @@

 assumes that your Meta key sends the ESC prefix, not the other variant

 that sets the highest bit of the character.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-M

+.B \-M, --metakey8

 Same as \-m, but assumes that your Meta key sets the 8th bit of the

 character high (sends 128 + character code).

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-z

+.B \-z, --statline

 Use terminal status line. This only works on terminals that support it

 and that have the relevant information in their \fItermcap\fP or

 \fIterminfo\fP database entry.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-l

+.B \-l, --ansi

 .BR L iteral

 translation of characters with the high bit set. With this flag on,

 minicom will try to translate the IBM line characters to ASCII. Many PC-unix

 clones will display character correctly without translation (Linux in a

 special mode, Coherent and SCO).

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-L

+.B \-L, --iso

 Ditto but assume screen uses an ISO8859 character set.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-w

+.B \-w, --wrap

 Turns line-wrap on at startup by default.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-H

+.B \-H, --displayhex

 Turn on output in hex mode.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-a

+.B \-a, --attrib=on/off

 .BR A ttribute

 usage. Some terminals, notably Televideo's, have rotten attribute

 handling (serial instead of parallel). By default, minicom uses '\-a

 on', but if you are using such a terminal you can (must!)  supply the

 option '\-a off'. The trailing 'on' or 'off' is needed.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-t

+.B \-t, --term=TERM

 .BR T erminal

 type. With this flag, you can override the environment TERM variable.

 This is handy for use in the MINICOM environment variable; one can create

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@

 initializes the screen to raw mode so that in conjunction with the \-l

 flag, the IBM line characters are displayed untranslated.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-c

+.B \-c, --color=on/off

 .BR C olor

 usage. Some terminals (such as the Linux console) support color with

 the standard ANSI escape sequences. Because there is apparently no

@@ -100,14 +100,14 @@

 with '\-c on'. This, and the '\-m' option, are good candidates to put

 into the MINICOM environment variable.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-S 

+.B \-S, --script=SCRIPT

 .BR script .

 Run the named script at startup. So far, passing username and password

 to a startup script is not supported. If you also use the \-d option to

 start dialing at startup, the \-S script will be run BEFORE dialing the

 entries specified with \-d.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-d

+.B \-d, --dial=ENTRY

 .BR D ial

 an entry from the dialing directory on startup. You can specify an

 index number, but also a substring of the name of the entry. If you 

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@

 entry specified after all other program initialization procedures are 

 completed.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-p

+.B \-p, --ptty=TTYP

 .BR P seudo

 terminal

 to use. This overrides the terminal port defined in the configuration

@@ -125,34 +125,40 @@

 the form (/dev/)tty[p-z/][0-f], (/dev/)pts[p-z/][0-f] or 

 (/dev/)pty[p-z/][0-f]. For example, /dev/ttyp1, pts/0 or /dev/ptyp2.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-C

+.B \-C, --capturefile=FILE

 .BR filename .

 Open capture file at startup.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-T

+.B \-T, --disabletime

 Disable the display of the online time in the status bar.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-b

+.B \-b, --baudrate

 Specify the baud rate, overriding the value given in the configuration

 file.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-D

+.B \-D, --device

 Specify the device, overriding the value given in the configuration file.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-R

+.B \-R, --remotecharset

 Specify the character set of the remote system is using and convert it to

 the character set of the local side. Example might be 'latin1'.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-7

+.B \-7, --7bit

 7bit mode for terminals which aren't 8bit capable. 8bit is default if the

 environment is configured for this via LANG or LC_ALL, 7bit otherwise.

 .TP 0.5i

-.B \-8

+.B \-8, --8bit

 8bit characters pass through without any modification.  'Continuous'

 means no locate/attribute control sequences are inserted without

 real change of locate/attribute. This mode is to display 8bit

 multi-byte characters such as Japanese. Not needed in every language with

 8bit characters. (For example displaying Finnish text doesn't need this.)

+.TP 0.5i

+.B \-h, --help

+Display help and exit.

+.TP 0.5i

+.B \-v, --version

+Print the minicom version.

 .PP

 .RS 0.5i

 When

diff -Naur minicom-2.6.2.orig/src/minicom.c minicom-2.6.2/src/minicom.c

--- minicom-2.6.2.orig/src/minicom.c	2013-01-18 23:41:44.000000000 +0100

+++ minicom-2.6.2/src/minicom.c	2013-07-31 14:09:46.912181667 +0200

@@ -831,6 +831,7 @@

     "  -T, --disabletime      : disable display of online time\n"

     "  -R, --remotecharset    : character set of communication partner\n"

     "  -v, --version          : output version information and exit\n"

+    "  -h, --help             : show help\n"

     "  configuration          : configuration file to use\n\n"

     "These options can also be specified in the MINICOM environment variable.\n"),

     PACKAGE);