Re: OCTET STRING

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 20:06:01 +0200

Stuart Jones <sjones@acusoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I tried the "mib scan" and "mib format" to convert binary to hex
> and vice versa. The problem is that the binary data I want to use
> contains NULLs (i.e. hex 0x00). This causes a problem with scotty (and
> TCL in general). Any ideas?

This is a Tcl problem and all you can do is to write a few lines of C
code that reads and encodes binary data in an ASCII representation (in
this case the OCTET STRING format might be a good choice).

Juergen