Re: [2.96.1] problem: latex generates pdf rather than dvi

[email protected] (Frank Küster) writes:

> Thomas Esser <[email protected]> schrieb:
> 
> > So, I guess that it is some other package or the document itself
> > that sets \pdfoutput=1.
> 
> I guess there might be tons of documents around that do some insane
> checks whether they are run by pdflatex, and switch to \pdfoutput=1
> in this case. This is of course buggy, however I think it would be
> good to offer a short workaround, that allows the creation of dvi
> files with such buggy documents. Not everybody has fun debugging
> other people's TeX code...
> 
> Either an option to pdflatex, or something like a dvilatex that really
> uses $prefix/bin/tex.

Perhaps some package `dvi' that will first set \pdfoutput to 0, then
set all possibly relevant control sequences to \undefined?

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