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PC/SC-lite (Personal Computer/Smart Card interface)

This is a middleware to access a smart card using SCard API (PC/SC) Its purpose
is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface in a very small form factor for 
communicating to smart cards and readers.

Compiling with "DEBUGATR=1 ./pcsc-lite.SlackBuild" enables ATR parsing debug 
output messages.  Compiling with "APIDOC=1 ./pcsc-lite.SlackBuild" produces 
API .pdf documentation (for ifd handlers only, mainly intended for developers).

pcsc-lite uses libhal for smart-card reader's detection, according to
upstream's advice.  If you want to use usb polling, you can pass "HALD=0" 
to the script when building in order to use libusb for detecting your reader
(be aware that, using libusb, if your reader can be managed at the same time 
by the openct driver *and* by the pcsc-lite driver, so you may experience 
some detection issues).

Please see README.SLACKWARE in pcsc-lite's documentation directory for notes.