dicomscope-3.6.0 help

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 07 May 2014 04:32:28 Liam Proven did opine:

> On 5 May 2014 22:25, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > Ubuntu-10.04.4 32 bit system on quad core phenom
> > 
> > I have a pair of cdroms with medical imagery stuff in DICOM format. 
> > Both are on me, one a CT Scan, and one an MRI.
> > 
> > I have installed DICOMscope as a viewer.
> > 
> > I have the MRI disk currently mounted as an iso9660 disk at
> > /media/cdrom, and the dicomscope files selector can see all the files
> > in the disks root directory.  Any further attempt to load a file, any
> > file, from this media gets a load failed message reported in the
> > bottom status bar, and running it as root doesn't change anything. 
> > And it does this without any clarifying text being output to the text
> > screen I ran it from.
> > 
> > I can "cat" the windows style .bat & .ini files, so they at least can
> > be read ok.
> > 
> > I know this is skimpy data at best, so how should I proceed to
> > troubleshoot this?
> > 
> > Seems to me there should be a "starter" file that then loads and
> > displays the whole disk.  Likely candidates all fail to load.
> > 
> > Clues welcome.
> 
> First things first.
> 
> Are the files readable?

Those that looked like text, yes.  Less shows me a bunch of binary too.
 
> Can you copy them from CD onto your hard disk?

Probably, haven't tried.  Perms as displayed by ls -l are all straight r-x 
across the packet.

> If you can and you do so, then can DICOMscope view them from the hard
> disk?
> 
> Once they are on R/W media, you can adjust permissions etc. if needed.

From what I can see it shouldn't be needed.  I'll try the copy sometime 
tomorrow.  Its getting sleepy out again.

Cheers, Gene
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