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

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-08-14, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

>> How should restore the traditional behaviour on an Ubuntu system?  (If
>> I want PDF output, I'll use the pdflatex command.)
>
> Have a look at  the texlinks command and fmtutil.cnf. There are man
> pages for both. I think you should be able to define Latex to do what
> you want by modifying the fmtutil.cnf file and re-running texlinks. I've
> not tried it, so you may need to play around a bit with this.

Never mind: this was a stupid question.  By default the latex command
on my computer *does* produce foo.dvi.  I was working on someone
else's *.tex files and hadn't noticed the line

  \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

in his preamble.

Oops!