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
       behavior 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  one 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   behavior   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) 1998-2024 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg  2,  26121  Oldenburg,
       Germany.

Version 3.6.9                   Wed Dec 11 2024                    dcmpssnd(1)
