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diff --git a/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3 b/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3
index 2eb1fb77a7..d265ec4e47 100644
--- a/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3
+++ b/doc/man/man3/lber-decode.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.TH LBER_DECODE 3 "25 January 2002" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
+.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
@@ -343,12 +353,12 @@ The return values for all of these functions are declared in the
 header file.  Some routines may dynamically allocate memory
 which must be freed by the caller using supplied deallocation routines.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.BR lber-encode (3)
-.BR lber-memory (3)
-.BR lber-sockbuf (3)
+.BR lber-encode (3),
+.BR lber-memory (3),
+.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.