texexec.pl and non-local .tex files

[Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen <GILBERT@login.iaf.nl>]

Hi there,

I am encountering a problem using texexec. I have a file mod.tex, 
located somewhere on my system. This file basically is a convertor. 
It's (conceptual) input:

\starttext
\typefile[history.txt]
\stoptext

I need this to quickly generate a .pdf file from an history.txt file, 
which are located throughout all our projects.

When running this manually, e.g.:

pdftex &cont-nl mod

it works, because mod.tex is found where I placed in (in 
c:/tex/pragma/sources/local/mod.tex). But when running it through 
texexec.pl it doesn't. 

texexec --pdf mod

Looking inside the texexec.pl script, I see that the .tex file *must*
exist in the current directory, because it is scanned by texexec for
options (which I think is a very nice idea).

Isn't it possible to run the thing through context even though the 
file doesn't exist? Or is this a bad idea? I know for sure I can change 
the perl script to do so, but perhaps am I missing a conceptual idea 
here.

Gilbert.