[Rails-devel] Can't start new game on 1.4

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

I've downloaded and installed Rails 1.4; created a config file; and tried
to start a game, twice (one 1835 and one 1856).  In both cases, as soon as
I hit "New Game", a popup appears on the screen, with a red stop sign at the
left, saying

       Game setup from file Game.xml failed:
        Illegal pattern character 'r'
                   [ OK ]

Obviously the game is completely unusable until this is fixed.