I don't want the latex command to produce PDFs.

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-08-14, Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
> didi at xubuntu:/tmp$ latex -output-format=dvi test.tex
> ...
> Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 1052 bytes).
> ...
>
> didi at xubuntu:/tmp$ latex -output-format=pdf test.tex 
> ...
> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 15324 bytes).
> ...

I'd never seen the -output-format option until now (because I've
always used latex to get DVI and pdflatex when I want PDF) but this
turns out to have been a completely stupid question (see my next
post).