.TH LBER_DECODE 3 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
.\" $OpenLDAP$
-.\" Copyright 1998-2003 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,
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