NAME
dcmpssnd - Network send for presentation state viewer
SYNOPSIS
dcmpssnd [options] config-file target study [series] [instance]
DESCRIPTION
The dcmpssnd application is invoked by the Grayscale Softcopy
Presentation State Viewer and is not intended to be invoked manually.
The application reads the common configuration file which is shared
between the different components of the viewer, attempts to establish a
DICOM association with the selected target and, if successful, selects
the required DICOM instances from the viewer’s database and transmits
them using the DICOM storage service class, which is supported as SCU.
When transmission is finished (successfully or unsuccessfully), the
application terminates. This application supports the same storage SOP
classes as the storescu utility, but does not support encapsulated
transfer syntaxes. See the full conformance statement for further
details.
PARAMETERS
config-file configuration file to be read
target symbolic identifier of send target in config file
study study instance UID of study in database to be sent
series series instance UID (default: send complete study)
instance SOP instance UID (default: send complete series)
OPTIONS
general options
-h --help
print this help text and exit
--version
print version information and exit
-v --verbose
verbose mode, print processing details
-d --debug
debug mode, print debug information
COMMAND LINE
All command line tools use the following notation for parameters:
square brackets enclose optional values (0-1), three trailing dots
indicate that multiple values are allowed (1-n), a combination of both
means 0 to n values.
Command line options are distinguished from parameters by a leading ’+’
or ’-’ sign, respectively. Usually, order and position of command line
options are arbitrary (i.e. they can appear anywhere). However, if
options are mutually exclusive the rightmost appearance is used. This
behaviour conforms to the standard evaluation rules of common Unix
shells.
In addition, one or more command files can be specified using an ’@’
sign as a prefix to the filename (e.g. @command.txt). Such a command
argument is replaced by the content of the corresponding text file
(multiple whitespaces are treated as a single separator) prior to any
further evaluation. Please note that a command file cannot contain
another command file. This simple but effective approach allows to
summarize common combinations of options/parameters and avoids longish
and confusing command lines (an example is provided in file
share/data/dumppat.txt).
ENVIRONMENT
The dcmpssnd utility will attempt to load DICOM data dictionaries
specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. By default, i.e. if
the DCMDICTPATH environment variable is not set, the file
<PREFIX>/lib/dicom.dic will be loaded unless the dictionary is built
into the application (default for Windows).
The default behaviour should be preferred and the DCMDICTPATH
environment variable only used when alternative data dictionaries are
required. The DCMDICTPATH environment variable has the same format as
the Unix shell PATH variable in that a colon (’:’) separates entries.
The data dictionary code will attempt to load each file specified in
the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. It is an error if no data
dictionary can be loaded.
FILES
etc/dcmpstat.cfg - sample configuration file
SEE ALSO
dcmpsrcv(1), storescu(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1998-2004 by Kuratorium OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121
Oldenburg, Germany.