25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
1:27 p.m.
On 10/25/06, Hans Hagen wrote:
Command: texexec --output=dvips foo Should produce: foo.dvi Actually produces: foo.pdf
hm, i need to check that, maybe there is no dvips option
Command: texexec --dvi foo Should produce: foo.dvi Actually produces: foo.dvi AND OVERWRITES foo.ps
--Mike Bird
that's because the backend is called as well (dvips) ; the latest version has a --nobackend option
But shouldn't "--dvi" produce only dvi (no dvips run afterwards) by default as was already suggested some time ago? I don't know how exactly "backends" and specials work, but why should the user bother about backends if he wants dvi output only? Mojca