Index: code/tools/asm/q3asm.c
===================================================================
--- code/tools/asm/q3asm.c	(revision 1387)
+++ code/tools/asm/q3asm.c	(working copy)
@@ -1526,6 +1516,19 @@
 	}
 }
 
+static void ShowHelp( char *argv0 ) {
+	Error("Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILES]...\n\
+Assemble LCC bytecode assembly to Q3VM bytecode.\n\
+\n\
+    -o OUTPUT      Write assembled output to file OUTPUT.qvm\n\
+    -f LISTFILE    Read options and list of files to assemble from LISTFILE.q3asm\n\
+    -b BUCKETS     Set symbol hash table to BUCKETS buckets\n\
+    -v             Verbose compilation report\n\
+    -vq3           Produce a qvm file compatible with Q3 1.32b\n\
+    -h --help -?   Show this help\n\
+", argv0);
+}
+
 /*
 ==============
 main
@@ -1538,15 +1541,7 @@
 //	_chdir( "/quake3/jccode/cgame/lccout" );	// hack for vc profiler
 
 	if ( argc < 2 ) {
-		Error("Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILES]...\n\
-Assemble LCC bytecode assembly to Q3VM bytecode.\n\
-\n\
-    -o OUTPUT      Write assembled output to file OUTPUT.qvm\n\
-    -f LISTFILE    Read options and list of files to assemble from LISTFILE\n\
-    -b BUCKETS     Set symbol hash table to BUCKETS buckets\n\
-    -v             Verbose compilation report\n\
-    -vq3           Produce a qvm file compatible with Q3 1.32b\n\
-", argv[0]);
+		ShowHelp( argv[0] );
 	}
 
 	start = I_FloatTime ();
@@ -1559,6 +1554,12 @@
 		if ( argv[i][0] != '-' ) {
 			break;
 		}
+		if( !strcmp( argv[ i ], "-h" ) || 
+		    !strcmp( argv[ i ], "--help" ) ||
+		    !strcmp( argv[ i ], "-?") ) {
+			ShowHelp( argv[0] );
+		}
+
 		if ( !strcmp( argv[i], "-o" ) ) {
 			if ( i == argc - 1 ) {
 				Error( "-o must preceed a filename" );