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>	The mechanism by which the NetSNMP library retrieves the correct
	row is by calling the function defined in the callback mechanism.
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>   cb.get_value = netSnmpIETFWGTable_get_value;</PRE
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>	The <I
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	the ACTION, RESERVE1, and RESERVE2 routines by the mechanism of 
	looping through the 
	requests for columns and performing some operation on the correct column.
	In this case, instead of checking the value, or writing, it 
	is setting a pointer to the appropiate data and the data's length (in bytes).
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>  switch(table_info-&#62;colnum) {

        case COLUMN_NSIETFWGNAME:
            /** OCTETSTR = ASN_OCTET_STR */
            snmp_set_var_typed_value(var, ASN_OCTET_STR,
                         (char*)&#38; context-&#62;nsIETFWGName,
                         context-&#62;nsIETFWGName_len );
        break;
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>	If one of your columnar nodes is of type <I
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>	The <I
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	correct type of the data, a pointer to the location of the data,
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