Re: Bug#116001: ITP: libpcsc-perl -- Perl interface to the PCSC smart card library

[Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>]

Le Wednesday 17 October 2001 à 20:45:50, Wouter Verhelst a écrit:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> > Version: N/A; reported 2001-10-17
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> >   Package name    : libpcsc-perl
> >   Version         : 1.0.7
> >   Upstream Author : Lionel Victor <lionel.victor@unforgettable.com>
> >                     Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau@free.fr>
> >   URL             : http://linuxnet.com/middleware/files/pcsc-perl-1.0.7.tar.gz
> >   License         : GPL
> >   Description     : Perl interface to the PCSC smart card library
> >
> >  This package contains a Perl wrapper to the PCSC smartcard library
> >  (pcsclite) together with some small examples.
> 
> Just for the record: WTF does PCSC stand for?

The exact name is PC/SC. I think it stands for Personnal Computer/Smart
Card [1]. It's a API defined (mainly) by Microsoft. David Corcoran wrote
a middleware to use the same API under Unix [2].

[1] http://www.pcscworkgroup.com/
[2] http://www.linuxnet.com/

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Ludovic Rousseau                           Ludovic.Rousseau@free.fr
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