Changing working directory in Erlang shell under Windows

Question

I have Erlang installed on my WinXP machine. Becouse so, I use it by a "werl.exe". The problem is, that I would like to change a default folder that werl starts in. I cannot find option that would let me do that, although I know there must be something like that. Could anybody help ?

Answer 1

If you want to change directory at run time in the emulator then use the built in function cd as below..

72> cd("c:/Sandbox/erl").
c:/Sandbox/erl
ok

Note: You need to use the forward slash and not backward slash as you would normally do in windows.