diff --git a/include/tradstdc.h b/include/tradstdc.h
index 881787235..12a0d4afe 100644
--- a/include/tradstdc.h
+++ b/include/tradstdc.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	tradstdc.h	$NHDT-Date: 1552007504 2019/03/08 01:11:44 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.35 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	tradstdc.h	$NHDT-Date: 1555361295 2019/04/15 20:48:15 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.36 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2006. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -320,6 +320,22 @@ typedef genericptr genericptr_t; /* (void *) or (char *) */
 #endif
 #endif
 
+/* this applies to both VMS and Digital Unix/HP Tru64 */
+#ifdef WIDENED_PROTOTYPES
+/* ANSI C uses "value preserving rules", where 'unsigned char' and
+   'unsigned short' promote to 'int' if signed int is big enough to hold
+   all possible values, rather than traditional "sign preserving rules"
+   where 'unsigned char' and 'unsigned short' promote to 'unsigned int'.
+   However, the ANSI C rules aren't binding on non-ANSI compilers.
+   When DEC C (aka Compaq C, then HP C) is in non-standard 'common' mode
+   it supports prototypes that expect widened types, but it uses the old
+   sign preserving rules for how to widen narrow unsigned types.  (In its
+   default 'relaxed' mode, __STDC__ is 1 and uchar widens to 'int'.) */
+#if defined(__DECC) && (!defined(__STDC__) || !__STDC__)
+#define UCHAR_P unsigned int
+#endif
+#endif
+
 /* These are used for arguments within FDECL/VDECL prototype declarations.
  */
 #ifdef UNWIDENED_PROTOTYPES
diff --git a/include/unixconf.h b/include/unixconf.h
index b7c5cabe0..c126d6839 100644
--- a/include/unixconf.h
+++ b/include/unixconf.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	unixconf.h	$NHDT-Date: 1552074505 2019/03/08 19:48:25 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.41 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	unixconf.h	$NHDT-Date: 1555361298 2019/04/15 20:48:18 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.42 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Pasi Kallinen, 2018. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -271,11 +271,6 @@
 #endif
 #endif
 
-/* Digital Unix/HP Tru64 -- see vmsconf.h for explanation */
-#if defined(__DECC) && (!defined(__STDC__) || !__STDC__)
-#define UCHAR_P unsigned int
-#endif
-
 /*
  * BSD/ULTRIX systems are normally the only ones that can suspend processes.
  * Suspending NetHack processes cleanly should be easy to add to other systems
diff --git a/include/vmsconf.h b/include/vmsconf.h
index bebe6b468..a815e704a 100644
--- a/include/vmsconf.h
+++ b/include/vmsconf.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	vmsconf.h	$NHDT-Date: 1552074506 2019/03/08 19:48:26 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.29 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	vmsconf.h	$NHDT-Date: 1555361299 2019/04/15 20:48:19 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.30 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2011. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -192,22 +192,6 @@ PANICTRACE_GDB=2  #at conclusion of panic, show a call traceback and then
 #endif
 #endif
 
-/* tradstdc.h has't set this up yet, but config1.h might have */
-#ifndef UNWIDENED_PROTOTYPES
-/* ANSI C uses "value preserving rules", where 'unsigned char' and
-   'unsigned short' promote to 'int' if signed int is big enough to hold
-   all possible values, rather than traditional "sign preserving rules"
-   where 'unsigned char' and 'unsigned short' promote to 'unsigned int'.
-   However, the ANSI C rules aren't binding on non-ANSI compilers.
-   When DEC C (aka Compaq C, then HP C) is in non-standard 'common' mode
-   it supports prototypes that expect widened types, but it uses the old
-   sign preserving rules for how to widen narrow unsigned types.  (In its
-   default 'relaxed' mode, __STDC__ is 1 and uchar widens to 'int'.) */
-#if defined(__DECC) && (!defined(__STDC__) || !__STDC__)
-#define UCHAR_P unsigned int
-#endif
-#endif
-
 #ifdef __DECC
 #define STRICT_REF_DEF /* used in lev_main.c */
 #endif
@@ -262,7 +246,7 @@ typedef __mode_t mode_t;
 #if defined(__DECC_VER) && (__DECC_VER >= 50000000)
  /* for cc/Standard=ANSI89, suppress notification that '$' in identifiers
     is an extension; sys/vms/*.c needs it regardless of strict ANSI mode */
- #pragma message disable DOLLARID
+# pragma message disable DOLLARID
 #endif
 
 #include "system.h"