Re: dvi output with tetex 3.0

Christian Baun <cray <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de> writes:
> 
> >    You have some code along the lines of
> >
> > \newif\ifpdf
> > \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
> >   \pdffalse
> > \else
> >   \pdfoutput=1
> >   \pdftrue
> > \fi
> 
> You are absolutely right. This was my problem. 
> 
> Thanks
>         Christian
> 

OK, one question then.

Suppose we're using a ill-formatted template with precisely those commands.
Isn't there a way to disable PDF output from the command line?

For example, I expected that doing 

  latex -output-format=dvi myfile.tex

would override the previous code and put out a DVI file...

Cheers,
    Joao