mingw-utils provides a number of useful utilities for MinGW. These include: `a2dll', a script to generate DLLs from .a archives; `dsw2mak', a script to generate gcc-compatibile GNU Makefiles from MSDevStudio workspace files; `redir.exe', a utility for redirecting stderr within cmd.exe sessions; `reimp.exe', a tool that converts certain MS-format import libraries to GNU format; `res2coff', for converting .res resource files to .o object format (possibly obsoleted by modern versions of windres from mingw32-binutils). Finally, this package also provides an experimental version of `msys-here.exe', a shell extension that adds a context-menu option to Windows Explorer. To install msys-here, run the `msys-here-config' script. Several utilities were provided in the past by previous incarnations of mingw-utils. These included pexports, which is now provided by the separate mingw32-pexports package; dos2unix and unix2dos, which are both now provided by the separate mingw32-dos2unix package; and DrMinGW. DrMinGW is now available and maintained outside the MinGW/MSYS project by its original author: http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/DrMingw