PDS_VERSION_ID      = PDS3
RECORD_TYPE         = STREAM
OBJECT              = TEXT
  PUBLICATION_DATE    = 2000-05-01
  NOTE                = "Description of contents of INDEX directory"
END_OBJECT          = TEXT
END

      The INDEX directory contains an index for this CD-WO volume (INDEX.TAB)
and a cumulative index for the volume set (CUMINDEX.TAB).  Accompanying each
*.TAB file is a PDS label (INDEX.LBL and CUMINDEX.LBL, respectively).

      The *.TAB files are ASCII files.  Each line (or record) in INDEX.TAB
contains information about a single data file in this data archive volume.
Each line in CUMINDEX.TAB contains information about a single data file in
the archival volume set as produced to date.

      Each line in a *.TAB file is made up of six comma-delimited
fixed-length fields.  Three fields contain character strings, which are
enclosed by double quotes.  The other three fields contain date/time
information; those values are NOT enclosed by quotes.

      The *.LBL label files describe the format and content of the respective
*.TAB files at the byte level.  Simply stated, the fields are:

              number of the CD-WO volume
              path name to the PDS detached label for each data file
              name of the data file
              start date/time of the data in the file
              stop date/time of the data in the file
              creation date/time for the original file