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... I would LIKE to just print Octet Strings as strings. But, this causes a problem in such cases as atPhysAddress in which the Octet string contains the 6 byte address instead of a printable ASCII string ...
... of a printable ASCII string. In this case, I would want to display the 6 bytes instead of just trying to print the string. ...



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