$Id: README-0.8,v 1.2 2003/04/11 17:05:09 aquamaniac Exp $

LibChipCard 0.8
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Changes from 0.7 to 0.8
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- This version now supports unix domain sockets on systems that support it.
  Most modern unices (like Linux, *BSD) do, while Windows doesn't.

- This library now uses driver description files to translate port names
  (like "COM1") to port values needed for the drivers.
  This now allows to add support for CTAPI drivers unknown to libchipcard
  without recompiling it. You need to simply add a description file for your
  driver and from then on Libchipcard will support the driver.

- Now it is impossible to select a card reader by the driver type (like
  "CTAPI" or "PCSC"). No application should need to make this determination.
  Consequently I removed the correpsonding fields from the network messages.
  This has the bad side effect that clients from the 0.7 line will not be able
  to work with 0.8 line daemons.
  This rather hard change made it possible to clean up Libchipcard internally
  so in the end your applications will benefit from this change.
  Now the message formats are consistent, so I hope I can keep them that way.