diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 030d635..6922722 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
                       Revision history for podlators
 
+5.02 - Not Released
+
+ - pod2text --help now exits with status 0, not 1, matching normal UNIX
+   command behavior and the behavior of pod2man.  (GitHub #19)
+
 5.01 - 2022-12-25
 
  - Guesswork (formatting rules based on heuristics intended for Perl
diff --git a/scripts/pod2text.PL b/scripts/pod2text.PL
index 50088bf..876d84c 100755
--- a/scripts/pod2text.PL
+++ b/scripts/pod2text.PL
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ GetOptions (\%options, 'alt|a', 'code', 'color|c', 'encoding|e=s', 'errors=s',
             'margin|left-margin|m=i', 'nourls', 'overstrike|o', 'quotes|q=s',
             'sentence|s', 'stderr', 'termcap|t', 'utf8|u', 'width|w=i')
     or exit 1;
-pod2usage (1) if $options{help};
+pod2usage (0) if $options{help};
 
 # Figure out what formatter we're going to use.  -c overrides -t.
 my $formatter = 'Pod::Text';