From: papa@sdf.org   
      
   I've been dusting-off fig-Forth for VAX-11 and noticed that every word   
   in the dictionary has 128 added to the character code of the last   
   character in the word name. Everything seems to work except a few things   
   like VLIST (prints a list of defined words like WORDS in ANS Forth)   
   printing a garbage character at the end of each word.   
      
   I wrote my own version of VLIST to unmunge the last characters, but it's   
   hard to believe it's been messed up for 40 years. Is there some   
   peculiarity in fig-Forth or the VAX-11 (I'm using significantly later   
   hardware and OS) that made this work correctly back in the day?   
      
   --   
   David Meyer   
   Takarazuka, Japan   
   papa@sdf.org   
      
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