Concatenated VARCHAR becomes TEXT in view

I have a view which I use to populate list boxes on several input screens
in Visual FoxPro for Windows. In the view I concatenate three varchar
columns to make a new column. The concatenation works fine but the
resulting column is a text column, which becomes a memo field in Visual
FoxPro. Memos don't work well for list boxes. Is there any way to get the
resulting column as a varchar or char field? My view command is below. I
have tried changing the ::text to ::varchar but the outcome is the same.

I am using Postgresql 7.3 running on Redhat Linux 9.

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW vw_event_summary AS

SELECT b.ltname, ((btrim((c.refullname )::text) || btrim((d.enname
)::text)) || btrim((f.evname )::text)) AS evlinkname1,
((btrim((g.refullname )::text) || btrim((h.enname )::text)) ||
btrim((i.evname )::text)) AS evlinkname2, a.evid, a.evlinktype AS evltid,
a.eventity1, a.evevent1, a.evresource1, a.eventity2, a.evevent2,
a.evresource2
FROM event a, linktype b, resource c, entity d, event f, resource g,
entity h, event i
WHERE (((((((a.evlinktype = b.ltid ) AND (a.evevent1 = f.evid )) AND
(a.evevent2 = i.evid )) AND (a.evresource1 = c.reid )) AND (a.evresource2
= g.reid )) AND (a.eventity1 = d.enid )) AND (a.eventity2 = h.enid ));

ALTER TABLE vw_event_summary OWNER TO postgres;

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