Perl interface to the PC/SC smart card library
==============================================

This package contains a Perl wrapper to the PC/SC smartcard library
(pcsc-lite) [1] from MUSCLE [2] together with some small examples.

You can find applications using this wrapper in the pcsc-tools package
[3].

[1] http://www.linuxnet.com/middle.html
[2] http://www.linuxnet.com/
[3] http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-tools/pcsc-tools.html

Authors:
========

- Lionel VICTOR for the main part of the job
- Ludovic ROUSSEAU for the debug and maintainance


Licences:
=========

    pcsc-perl: wrapper to the PC/SC smartcard library
    Copyright (C) 2001, 2002  Lionel VICTOR, Ludovic ROUSSEAU

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


History:
========

1.2.1 - 24 May 2003, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - redesign the Makefile.PL to make the modules at least installable
    - add Card/Makefile.PL to also install Chipcard::PCSC::Card
    - modified test.pl to accept any SW in TransmitWithCheck

1.2.0 - 9 May 2003, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - naming scheme migration from PCSC to Chipcard::PCSC
    - add TransmitWithCheck() and Chipcard::PCSC::Card::ISO7816Error()
      functions

1.1.3 - 7 Nov 2002, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - small modifications to support Perl 5.8

1.1.2 - 28 Aug 2002, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - small modification to link against libpcsclite.so.0 instead of
      libpcsclite.so since libpcsclite.so should only be available on
      development platforms (-dev packages).

1.1.1 - 7 Mar 2002, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - small typesetting modifications od .pod files

1.1.0 - 6 Mar 2002, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - create this README file with the history
    - complete reindentation of .pod files

1.0.9 - 5 Mar 2002, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
    - the minium APDU length is 4 bytes and not 5
    - correctly test if a digit is hexa or not

1.0.8 - 18 Oct 2001, Ludovic ROUSSEAU


$Id: README,v 1.6 2003/05/24 20:57:21 rousseau Exp $