>VFP 5 & 6 seem to put trailing spaces on the end of any char field. It shouldn't do this and I don't know why it is doing this. Does anyone know if there is a setting to shut this off?

I have been having the same problem on Oracle 7.3.2. The only way I have found around it is to use SQL pass-through for all of my updates. I still use views to retrieve information for read only cursors and lookups.