diff --git a/Angel/Config.hs b/Angel/Config.hs
--- a/Angel/Config.hs
+++ b/Angel/Config.hs
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@
 modifyProg prog "stderr" (String s) = prog{stderr = (T.unpack s)}
 modifyProg prog "stderr" _ = error "wrong type for field 'stderr'; string required"
 
+modifyProg prog "directory" (String s) = prog{workingDir = (Just $ T.unpack s)}
+modifyProg prog "directory" _ = error "wrong type for field 'directory'; string required"
+
 modifyProg prog n _ = error $ "unrecognized field: " ++ n
 
 
diff --git a/angel.cabal b/angel.cabal
--- a/angel.cabal
+++ b/angel.cabal
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 -- The package version. See the Haskell package versioning policy
 -- (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy) for
 -- standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
-Version:             0.3.1
+Version:             0.3.2
 
 -- A short (one-line) description of the package.
 -- Synopsis:            
@@ -92,6 +92,6 @@
   -- Extra tools (e.g. alex, hsc2hs, ...) needed to build the source.
   -- Build-tools:         
 
-  Extensions: OverloadedStrings,ScopedTypeVariables
+  Extensions: OverloadedStrings,ScopedTypeVariables,BangPatterns
   
   Ghc-Options: -threaded