On 18 Jun 2021 at 05:26p, Rick Smith pondered and said...
 
 RS> Is there a dumb terminal of sorts for the modern day binkd? Like a
 RS> window open in a terminal where you can watch the doings of bink? I
 RS> think I am remembering such a thing from back in the day with

Well I have a copy running in a terminal and use this to get it running.

./binkd -C binkd.cfg

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