Hi Dave,
Could you try the following?
On MS SQL Server,
create table t1 (c1 char(1) null, c2 text null, c3 char(1) null)
go
insert t1 values ("1", null, "b")
insert t1 values ("2", null, null)
insert t1 values (null, null, "3")
insert t1 values (null, null, null)
extract that table, create the same table in ASE, and import the data.
Do any of the rows return 0x0 for select textptr(c2) from t1?
If so, could you attach the data file?
Cheers,
-bret