[MiKTeX] latex to produce .dvi files

[Sven H. <s.h...@cg...>]

Hi!

I would like to produce .dvi files with MikTex under Windows XP. 
Following the steps from the Miktex manual under "pdftex.cfg" did not 
yield the effect described, so what went wrong? So what I did was:

- In the Miktex 2.6 Manual, looked at page Reference/Files/pdftex.cfg

- Run in a DOS box (or Cygwin shell) "initexmf --edit-config-file pdftex"

- Notepad comes up, displays a pdftex.cfg, which does NOT look like in 
the manual but is much shorter - never mind, as was said in the manual I 
entered the line with a non-positive integer:
    output_format -1

- save the file (Ctrl-S) and quit the notepad,

- but unfortunately "latex myfile.tex" still produces myfile.pdf, and 
not myfile.dvi which was what I wanted!

I have played with all kinds of options of initexmf, also with longer 
pdftex.cfg, and I have also checked through the Miktex configuration 
files. It seems my editing went into the correct file \Documents and 
Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.6\pdftex\config\pdftex.cfg 
but unfortunately the settings did not take effect.

I appreciate any ideas,
regards, Sven