Alignement

Hi,

ANS states clearly, that programs do have to take care about
alignement. But if I do have data that comes from say a file from
another machine, I want to read this. So I've to do things like

\ VAX-order
: v@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    dup      c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
        over 1+  c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  8 << or
        over 2 + c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 16 << or
        swap 3 + c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 24 << or ;

\ Network-order
: n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    dup      c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 24 <<
        over 1+  c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 16 << or
        over 2 + c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  8 << or
        swap 3 + c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
       or ;

Is there any common practise how to name such words? Perl for example
has it's pack/unpack to do such things and I could imagine I'm not the
first that stumbles about this problem.

Regards,
-Helmar