perl and binary executable dcmdump

[kmui]

Hello all

I'm running a perl script that calls dcmdump.exe. I'm doing this in cygwin. The dump has an error that says: "dcmdump: Error: Normal: Reading file:".

However the same command can be run successfully on command line. The syntax I use is:

$PATH/dcmdump.exe image.dimg

Does anyone have any good insight?

THanks

[Marco Eichelberg]

The stupid message "Error: Normal: Reading file" is caused by the fact that on Windows platforms some system functions do not set the errno variable, whereas their Posix counterparts do. In a few cases DCMTK will produce error messages containing the text from strerror(errno) which in these cases contain useless information. Nevertheless in this case dcmdump just failed to open the file.