funny behaviou - texexec & file not in current directory

[Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <nordhaug@karst.princeton.edu>]

Hi!

[I have the newest (beta) context, texexec, texutil and pdfetex/pdftex.]

I have this minimal file called 'test.tex'

% output=pdftex
\starttext
Hello!
\stoptext

I copy it to a another (sub)directory called 'tdir'. Then I run

 texexec test.tex      - and get pdf output

 texexec tdir/test.tex - and get dvi output

Also if I move the format file to 'tdir' [for some reason, testing,
what ever] and go into 'tdir', and then run:

 texexec --format=context test.tex     - and get pdf output  (*)

 texexec --format=../context test.tex  - and get dvi output

(*) Using the same format file but now from default place .../web2c/.

Why this behaviour?  I have also tested with the '--pdf' switch but it
doesn't make any difference (as expected since % output=pdftex should
have the same effect).

Regards, Hans Fredrik

PS! An easy fix (I found out after half an hour) is to resign and add 
    '\pdfoutput=1' in the file. But shouldn't '% output=pdftex' have
    the same effect (when running texexec)?

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