The keyword file is a file called, literally, "xyz123.keywords".  (Assuming 
you are going to include it with a ".IK XYX123" directive in the list header.)

It lives in LISTSERV's A directory, eg, for Windows, \LISTSERV\MAIN .

You can create it with a text editor right in place, or you can make an 
entry in SITE.CATALOG for it and PUT it like any other file (with the 
caveat that you must have a file by that name already in place the first 
time you PUT it, or LISTSERV will tell you that the file is listed in the 
catalog but does not physically exist; this is true of any ad-hoc file you 
maintain on the server via SITE.CATALOG or a sub-catalog).  The catalog 
entry could be as simple as

XYZ123.KEYWORDS XYZ123.KEYWORDS.A CTL CTL

which limits GET/PUT access to LISTSERV maintainers only.

Nathan

At 12:37 PM 4/12/2005 -0500, Weis, Cathy wrote:
>I need ".IK for Dummies" which gives me a step by step instructions.  I
>don't understand how the XYZ123 KEYWORD file is created and where it
>resides.
>
>Is it a .txt or a .list file in the listserv\main Directory?
>
>Can I create it on the server or do I use the web interface - or
>neither?
>
>
>The documentation doesn't make any sense to me and I'm getting
>frustrated with Support because (although they are trying) the answers
>are not "idiot-proof" (me being the idiot).
>
>Sorry!
>
>
>Cathy Weis
>American Bar Association
>Information Systems
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ben Parker
>Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 12:12 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Updating .list file via find/replace
>
>On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:14:50 -0500, "Weis, Cathy"
><[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
> >I'm the Site Admin for the American Bar Association and need to add a
> >bit of info (validate= yes) to all the .list files and I'd rather not
> >update each list one by one.  (We have 2500 lists - just a few!).
>
>Any manual editing of the *.list files is just about guaranteed to
>destroy
>that *.list file.  This is officially discouraged by L-soft for very
>good
>reasons.  Edit one header at a time is the only way.
>
>However, also long as you have to go through that pain, you should give
>serious thought to Pete's suggestion to use the .IK keywords file insert
>for
>various fixed header parameters per the requirements of your site to
>make
>future changes much less painful.