Re: latex (tetex) refuses to produce dvi

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:59 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
Sorry, this was supposed to be sent to the list ....

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:58:49 -0600
"Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

* Micha Feigin <michf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [070214 20:43]:
I tried to produce dvi output from a tex file I have and latex just
refuses to do it. I tried:
latex -output-format=dvi <file>.tex
And it's as if the option is not there, I just get a pdf file again.
How do I force latex to produce a dvi file?
This is with debian unstable and the tetex packages, not texlive

By default, the command

$ latex filename.tex

produces a dvi file, in both TeTeX and TeXLive. I an unaware of the
"output-format" option; why are you using it?


I'm using the output-format option because the current installation of tetex
on my debian unstable system will only produce pdf and completely refuses to
produce dvi out.

I was used that
$ latex filename.tex
but for some strange reason that doesn't happen here. I guess that there is
some switch somewhere that is ruining things but I have no idea where to look
for it.


RLH




ah yes, I recall this - see "flavours of LaTeX" subject line from
Oct/Nov'06...

don't think I solved it... just use the 'old' DVI version....


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