PCSC-Perl is wrapper built around the PCSC/lite library [http://www.linuxnet.com] from David CORCORAN. The PCSC/lite library is an abstraction layer that allows standardized communications with a wide range of smart card readers. The native API for PCSC/lite is C. The Perl wrapper lets you access the PCSC/lite API with Perl instead of the native C language. This will hopefully help you to quickly develop an application prototype or a personalisation script. PCSC-Perl 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. If you whish to report a bug concerning the wrapper or the associated tools, please feel free to contact the author by mail: Lionel VICTOR . If you have any questions about this wrapper, please visit http://www.pcsc-perl.org/