Fabio,

Doug is not talking about table structure, he's talking about variables.

For table structure use must afields().

For variables varchar and char are handled identically and thus type() tells you that varchar is C.

>Sorry, but i cannot agree with this.
>For same structure is necessary ( not sufficient ) same RECSIZE().
>
>Try this, RECSIZE() is different:
>

>CLEAR
>SET NULL OFF
>
>CREATE CURSOR TEST (F1 C )
>? RECSIZE()
>CREATE CURSOR TEST (F1 V )
>? RECSIZE()
>