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) 1998-2014 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.