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Hans Hagen wrote:
> texexec --dvi test --nobackend

That works.  As another test, using --output=dvi instead of --dvi
produces pdf even with --nobackend.

Just to be thorough, or difficult, I also tried

   texexec test --nobackend

where pdftex is both front- and backend.  It did the right thing (ran
pdftex anyway and produced pdf).

> --nobackend

Thanks, that switch was news to me.

-Sanjoy

`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.