PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2002-08-05 NOTE = "Description of INDEX directory contents" END_OBJECT = TEXT END The INDEX directory contains an PDS index for this archive volume (INDEX.TAB) and its detached PDS label (INDEX.LBL). The INDEX.TAB file is an ASCII file. Each line (or record) in the INDEX.TAB file contains information about a single data file in the archive volume. Each line is made up of comma-delimited fixed-length fields. Character strings are enclosed by double quotes and are left-justified within the quotes. Integer fields are right-justified. Three fields contain date/time information in UTC (GMT). The date/time format is the ISO standard.