--- a/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.in
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@
 	@$(top_srcdir)/move-if-change $@-t $@
 
 parse.cc : parse.y
-	@echo "expect 87 shift/reduce conflicts"
+	@echo "expect 11 shift/reduce conflicts"
 	$(YACC) $(YFLAGS) $<
 	@$(top_srcdir)/move-if-change y.tab.c $(@F)
 

--- a/src/ls-oct-ascii.cc
+++ b/src/ls-oct-ascii.cc
@@ -299,71 +299,6 @@
   return status;
 }
 
-// Match one of the elements in KEYWORDS on stream IS, placing the
-// matched keyword in KW and the associated value in VALUE,
-// returning TRUE if successful and FALSE otherwise.
-//
-// Input should look something like:
-//
-//  [%#][ \t]*keyword[ \t]*int-value.*\n
-
-bool
-extract_keyword (std::istream& is, const string_vector& keywords,
-		 std::string& kw, int& value, const bool next_only)
-{
-  bool status = false;
-  kw = "";
-  value = 0;
-
-  char c;
-  while (is.get (c))
-    {
-      if (c == '%' || c == '#')
-	{
-	  OSSTREAM buf;
-
-	  while (is.get (c) && (c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '%' || c == '#'))
-	    ; // Skip whitespace and comment characters.
-
-	  if (isalpha (c))
-	    buf << c;
-
-	  while (is.get (c) && isalpha (c))
-	    buf << c;
-
-	  buf << OSSTREAM_ENDS;
-	  std::string tmp = OSSTREAM_STR (buf);
-	  OSSTREAM_FREEZE (buf);
-
-	  for (int i = 0; i < keywords.length (); i++)
-	    {
-	      int match = (tmp == keywords[i]);
-
-	      if (match)
-		{
-		  kw = keywords[i];
-
-		  while (is.get (c) && (c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == ':'))
-		    ; // Skip whitespace and the colon.
-
-		  is.putback (c);
-		  if (c != '\n')
-		    is >> value;
-		  if (is)
-		    status = true;
-		  while (is.get (c) && c != '\n')
-		    ; // Skip to beginning of next line;
-		  return status;
-		}
-	    }
-
-	  if (next_only)
-	    break;
-	}
-    }
-  return status;
-}
-
 // Extract one value (scalar, matrix, string, etc.) from stream IS and
 // place it in TC, returning the name of the variable.  If the value
 // is tagged as global in the file, return TRUE in GLOBAL.