diff --git a/xwords4/dawg/Makefile.langcommon b/xwords4/dawg/Makefile.langcommon
index 52d33a44a..6ec209033 100644
--- a/xwords4/dawg/Makefile.langcommon
+++ b/xwords4/dawg/Makefile.langcommon
@@ -155,9 +155,16 @@ endif
 frankspecials.bin: ../frank_mkspecials.pl  $(BMPFILES)
 	$< $(BLANK_INFO) $(LANG_SPECIAL_INFO) > $@
 
-$(LANG)%.$(FRANK_EXT): dawg$(LANG)%.stamp $(LANG)%_flags.bin charcount.bin table.bin values.bin frankspecials.bin
+# xlock.bin is an artifact of the Palm format which the shipping
+# eBookman code expects, but simply skips.  It could be eliminated in
+# the NEWDAWG format, i.e. for flags != 0x0001
+xlock.bin:
+	perl -e "print pack(\"n\",0)" > $@
+
+$(LANG)%.$(FRANK_EXT): dawg$(LANG)%.stamp $(LANG)%_flags.bin charcount.bin table.bin values.bin frankspecials.bin xlock.bin
 	cat $(LANG)$*_flags.bin charcount.bin table.bin values.bin \
-		frankspecials.bin $(LANG)StartLoc.bin $$(ls dawg$(LANG)$*_*.bin) > $@
+		frankspecials.bin $(LANG)StartLoc.bin xlock.bin \
+		$$(ls dawg$(LANG)$*_*.bin) > $@
 	cp $@ saveme.bin
 
 $(LANG)%.seb: $(LANG)%.$(FRANK_EXT) $(LANG)%.atts