User Guide error: conv, dos2unix not in cygutils package

2017-12-05 Thread Bart Jacobs
In Chapter 3, "Using Cygwin effectively with Windows", the User Guide states that package cygutils provides tools conv, d2u, dos2unix, u2d, and unix2dos. This is incorrect: conv is provided by cygutils-extra, and the other tools are provided by dos2unix. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin

setup.exe ignores unrecognized command-line arguments silently

2017-12-05 Thread Bart Jacobs
Problem: setup.exe ignores unrecognized command-line arguments silently. For example: the command line "setup.exe -P p7zip curl" installs p7zip but not curl. Suggestion: Make it print a warning when it encounters an unrecognized command-line argument. So: "setup.exe -P p7zip curl" should prin