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[openldap] / doc / man / man3 / lber-decode.3

diff --git a/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3 b/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3
index 8b4cfde74294da2c75e616fba1fd99232034feb8..d265ec4e47c9f907d15c58c74ec11db789363328 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3
+++ b/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .TH LBER_DECODE 3 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
 .\" $OpenLDAP$
-.\" Copyright 1998-2002 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2006 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copying restrictions apply.  See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
 .SH NAME
 ber_get_next, ber_skip_tag, ber_peek_tag, ber_scanf, ber_get_int,
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ ber_get_enum, ber_get_stringb, ber_get_stringa, ber_get_stringal,
 ber_get_stringbv, ber_get_null, ber_get_boolean, ber_get_bitstring,
 ber_first_element, ber_next_element
 \- LBER simplified Basic Encoding Rules library routines for decoding
+.SH LIBRARY
+OpenLDAP LBER (liblber, -llber)
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B #include <lber.h>
 .LP
@@ -102,6 +104,14 @@ returned in the parameter.  The caller should free the returned
 string using
 .BR ber_memfree ().
 .TP
+.B A
+Octet string.  A variant of "\fBa\fP".  A char ** should be supplied.
+Memory is allocated, filled with the contents of the octet string, 
+null-terminated, and returned in the parameter, unless a zero-length
+string would result; in that case, the arg is set to NULL.
+The caller should free the returned string using
+.BR ber_memfree ().
+.TP
 .B s
 Octet string.  A char * buffer should be supplied, followed by a pointer to a
 ber_len_t initialized to the size of the buffer.  Upon return, the
@@ -334,7 +344,7 @@ as follows.
 .fi
 .SH ERRORS
 If an error occurs during decoding, generally these routines return
-LBER_ERROR (\-1).
+LBER_ERROR ((ber_tag_t)\-1).
 .LP
 .SH NOTES
 .LP
@@ -348,7 +358,7 @@ which must be freed by the caller using supplied deallocation routines.
 .BR lber-sockbuf (3),
 .BR lber-types (3)
 .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-.B     OpenLDAP
+.B OpenLDAP
 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
-.B     OpenLDAP
+.B OpenLDAP
 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.