I am using pervasive 2000i and
using the table designer I created a table which
has two fields both allowing null values i.e
firstname 10 characters null
surname 10 characters null

then when I save the table the length is NOT 20
btreive set's it to 22

but Had I created the above table where both the fields
were null the size is 20

How can I get round with creating a table which has the above fields
but both can be null and size to be 20????

THis is urgent As the data files have been generated by CLIENT and I need the define the ddfs properly.

I've already answer this in your other thread about field lenghts. See http://www.dbforums.com/t998764.html.