Re: latex (tetex) refuses to produce dvi

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

* Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> [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?

RLH