On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Tommi Koivula wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 TK> "-nP" will just make the .?lo file and exit. The background binkd
 TK> client has to be running.

ahhh... perhaps that is the real answer to the problem? i don't think i've
noted the -n parameter before... interesting and thanks!

)\/(ark