dcmpssnd(1)							    OFFIS DCMTK 						       dcmpssnd(1)

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

	      --arguments
		print expanded command line arguments

	 -q   --quiet
		quiet mode, print no warnings and errors

	 -v   --verbose
		verbose mode, print processing details

	 -d   --debug
		debug mode, print debug information

	 -ll  --log-level  [l]evel: string constant
		(fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
		use level l for the logger

	 -lc  --log-config  [f]ilename: string
		use config file f for the logger

LOGGING

       The level of logging output of the various command line tools and underlying libraries can be specified	by  the  user.	By  default,  only
       errors  and  warnings  are written to the standard error stream. Using option --verbose also informational messages like processing details
       are reported. Option --debug can be used to get more details on the internal activity, e.g. for debugging purposes.  Other  logging  levels
       can be selected using option --log-level. In --quiet mode only fatal errors are reported. In such very severe error events, the application
       will usually terminate. For more details on the different logging levels, see documentation of module 'oflog'.

       In case the logging output should be written to file (optionally with logfile rotation), to syslog (Unix) or the event log (Windows) option
       --log-config  can  be  used.  This configuration file also allows for directing only certain messages to a particular output stream and for
       filtering certain messages based on the module or application where they are generated.	An  example  configuration  file  is  provided	in
       <etcdir>/logger.cfg).

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 unless they
       appear between two quotation marks) 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 <datadir>/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 <datadir>/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.
       On Windows systems, a semicolon (';') is used as a separator. 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

       <etcdir>/dcmpstat.cfg - sample configuration file

SEE ALSO

       dcmpsrcv(1), storescu(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1998-2010 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.

Version 3.6.0							    6 Jan 2011							       dcmpssnd(1)