Hi, Just wanted to tell everyone that there is a new release of PC/SC due by Monday or Tuesday of next week. New features include: ReaderFactory - responsible for establishing reader context and handling events. This cleans up the code in SCardComm. It also adds a great deal of stability to the resource manager. American Biometrics BioMouse Plus PC/SC driver - this driver will utilize the smartcard reader only. A separate API is provided for the biometric fingerprint scan. A more filled in C-API. The Windows style API is being more filled in and used more widely in test applications. Plus compiling with gcc drops the exe size from 2meg to about 12k. A benchmark utility. This will do many block read and write transfers, powers, resets, etc and time them and give an accurate timing mechanism for looking at other readers relatively. I have the benchmark results and they are quite surprising. A command line directory browser. And finally, we should begin to see early versions of XCard for PC/SC by next week. A real early version will probably be shown at Card Tech. It is written in QT and has a really nice interface ( much nicer than the old XCard ) Bug fixes in SCardComm - Not returning the ActiveProtocol. - Not handling shared/exclusive modes. Bug fixes in Transmit - Fixed structure array passing. - etc. etc. I'll keep you posted when it is all available. Hopefully I'll see some of you at Card Tech next week #1242. Thanks Dave ************************************************************* David Corcoran Internet Security/Smartcards Home: Purdue University 2252 US Highway 52 West Department of Computer Science West Lafayette, IN 47906 CERIAS/COAST Laboratory Home: (765) 463-2455 Cell: (317) 514-4797 http://www.linuxnet.com ************************************************************* *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************
