diff --git a/New/README.txt b/New/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..91453de0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/New/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+	**************  W A R N I N G  ****************
+
+This is code in development that is very likely not to work at all.
+
+Look at it if you are interested in the next release of Shorewall but
+the code is useless beyond its curiosity value.
diff --git a/New/compiler.pl b/New/compiler.pl
index a08638247..6d9cfcb61 100755
--- a/New/compiler.pl
+++ b/New/compiler.pl
@@ -1717,7 +1717,7 @@ sub add_common_rules() {
     if ( @$list ) {
 	my $disposition;
 
-	progress_message2 '   $doing TCP Flags checking...';
+	progress_message2 "   $doing TCP Flags checking...";
 	
 	$chainref = new_standard_chain 'tcpflags';
 
@@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@ sub add_common_rules() {
     if ( $config{DYNAMIC_ZONES} ) {
 	for $interface ( @interfaces) {
 	    for $chain ( @{dynamic_chains $interface} ) {
-		new_standard_chain '$chain';
+		new_standard_chain $chain;
 	    }
 	}