Christopher J. Camisa wrote:
Hi Dale,

    Try again, but this time use the --exact option to your invocation on the command line.

Kind Regards,
-Camisa

I read that man page at least twice.  How did I miss that?  That does what I need.  I lose the comments in the old file of course but I have a cleaner and MUCH smaller keyword file. 

Thanks for pointing out that option. 

Dale

:-)  :-)