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6 dcmprscp - DICOM basic grayscale print management SCP
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10 dcmprscp [options]
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13 The dcmprscp utility implements the DICOM Basic Grayscale Print
14 Management Service Class as SCP. It also supports the optional
15 Presentation LUT SOP Class. The utility is intended for use within the
16 DICOMscope viewer.
17 The dcmprscp utility accepts print jobs from a remote Print SCU. It
19 does not create real hardcopies but stores print jobs in the local
20 DICOMscope database as a set of Stored Print objects (one per page) and
21 Hardcopy Grayscale images (one per film box N-SET). The DICOMscope
22 application allows one to load a Stored Print object created by
23 dcmprscp and to render a screen preview of the hardcopy. The dcmprscp
24 utility reads the characteristics of the printer to be emulated from
25 the configuration file.
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28 general options
29 -h --help
30 print this help text and exit
31 --version
33 print version information and exit
34 --arguments
36 print expanded command line arguments
37 -q --quiet
39 quiet mode, print no warnings and errors
40 -v --verbose
42 verbose mode, print processing details
43 -d --debug
45 debug mode, print debug information
46 -ll --log-level [l]evel: string constant
48 (fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
49 use level l for the logger
50 -lc --log-config [f]ilename: string
52 use config file f for the logger
53 -l --logfile
55 write a log file (not with --log-config)
56 # this option is available for reasons of backward
58 # compatibility only
59 processing options
61 -c --config [f]ilename: string
62 process using settings from configuration file
63 -p --printer [n]ame: string (default: 1st printer in config file)
65 select printer with identifier n from config file
66 +d --dump
68 dump all DIMSE messages
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71 The level of logging output of the various command line tools and
72 underlying libraries can be specified by the user. By default, only
73 errors and warnings are written to the standard error stream. Using
74 option --verbose also informational messages like processing details
75 are reported. Option --debug can be used to get more details on the
76 internal activity, e.g. for debugging purposes. Other logging levels
77 can be selected using option --log-level. In --quiet mode only fatal
78 errors are reported. In such very severe error events, the application
79 will usually terminate. For more details on the different logging
80 levels, see documentation of module 'oflog'.
81 In case the logging output should be written to file (optionally with
83 logfile rotation), to syslog (Unix) or the event log (Windows) option
84 --log-config can be used. This configuration file also allows for
85 directing only certain messages to a particular output stream and for
86 filtering certain messages based on the module or application where
87 they are generated. An example configuration file is provided in
88 <etcdir>/logger.cfg.
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91 All command line tools use the following notation for parameters:
92 square brackets enclose optional values (0-1), three trailing dots
93 indicate that multiple values are allowed (1-n), a combination of both
94 means 0 to n values.
95 Command line options are distinguished from parameters by a leading '+'
97 or '-' sign, respectively. Usually, order and position of command line
98 options are arbitrary (i.e. they can appear anywhere). However, if
99 options are mutually exclusive the rightmost appearance is used. This
100 behavior conforms to the standard evaluation rules of common Unix
101 shells.
102 In addition, one or more command files can be specified using an '@'
104 sign as a prefix to the filename (e.g. @command.txt). Such a command
105 argument is replaced by the content of the corresponding text file
106 (multiple whitespaces are treated as a single separator unless they
107 appear between two quotation marks) prior to any further evaluation.
108 Please note that a command file cannot contain another command file.
109 This simple but effective approach allows one to summarize common
110 combinations of options/parameters and avoids longish and confusing
111 command lines (an example is provided in file <datadir>/dumppat.txt).
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114 The dcmprscp utility will attempt to load DICOM data dictionaries
115 specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. By default, i.e. if
116 the DCMDICTPATH environment variable is not set, the file
117 <datadir>/dicom.dic will be loaded unless the dictionary is built into
118 the application (default for Windows).
119 The default behavior should be preferred and the DCMDICTPATH
121 environment variable only used when alternative data dictionaries are
122 required. The DCMDICTPATH environment variable has the same format as
123 the Unix shell PATH variable in that a colon (':') separates entries.
124 On Windows systems, a semicolon (';') is used as a separator. The data
125 dictionary code will attempt to load each file specified in the
126 DCMDICTPATH environment variable. It is an error if no data dictionary
127 can be loaded.
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130 <etcdir>/dcmpstat.cfg, <etcdir>/printers.cfg - sample configuration
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134 dcmprscu(1)
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