debian man page for dcmftest

dcmftest(1)							    OFFIS DCMTK 						       dcmftest(1)

NAME
       dcmftest - Test if file uses DICOM part 10 format

SYNOPSIS
       dcmftest file...

DESCRIPTION
       The dcmftest utility checks whether the files specified on the command line are DICOM files in part 10 format (with meta-header).

PARAMETERS
       dcmfile-in  DICOM input filename to be dumped

NOTES
       All  files  specified on the command line are checked for the presence of the DICOM 'magic word' 'DICM' at byte position 128. No attempt is
       made to parse the complete data set. For each file the test  result  is	printed  to  stdout  in  the  form  'yes:  <filename>
'  or  'no:
       <filename>
'. The utility terminates with a return code corresponding to the number of files found to be non-DICOM, i.e. if all files pass
       as DICOM files, the return value is 0. This behaviour is intended for use in shell script programming.

SEE ALSO
       dcmgpdir(1), dcmmkdir(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1997-2010 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.

Version 3.6.0							    6 Jan 2011							       dcmftest(1)