Hello, I was unable to obtain dvi files with the latex program from tetex-bin testing package (it was a symbolic link towards pdfetex that seems to refuse all my kind of "--output-format dvi" commands). Thus I downgrade all the tetex package into stable version and then when trying to use latex it fails with the following error message:
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) After reading the faq and recompiling all the fmt format: same consequences. !!!!!!> But when I try elatex, IT WORKS. Therefore latex, elatex are symlinks towards the same program etex! Thus I conclude that somehow etex analysis the way the program is launched, which is a bit obfuscating for me. In the same manner, pdfetex which was working on my testing version, now does not work anymore but pdflatex does. I finally fix my config with an alias from latex to elatex. I find it not pretty, but for the moment I can have both dvi and pdf generated which is very nice. Is there anywhere a good description of what etex does in which version ? The manual pages seems to say that all I tried should have worked, but it didn't. Thanks and I hope that my workaround would be usefull for some other debian users. Manuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
