teTeX 2 -> teTeX 3 help

Hi,

I recently upgraded my machine from Fedora Core 3 to 4. This led to an
upgrade from teTeX 2 to teTeX 3.

Now for the life of me I can't figure out how to get a dvi file. "latex
main.tex" will give me a pdf. I understand that pdf is now the default
output. On my system, /usr/bin/latex is a link to /usr/bin/pdfetex.

The weird thing is if I just try "pdfetex main.tex" I get an "undefined
control sequence" error at the first line of main.tex. I can do "pdfetex
-fmt latex main.tex" to get a pdf. The man page for pdfetex tells me I can
use "-output-format dvi" to get a dvi file. This does not work.

All I want is a dvi file. Is this a bug, or am I just missing something
here?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kristo
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