PDS_VERSION_ID      = PDS3
RECORD_TYPE         = STREAM
OBJECT              = TEXT
  PUBLICATION_DATE    = 2026-06-01
  NOTE                = "Description of contents of INDEX directory"
END_OBJECT          = TEXT
END

      The INDEX directory contains an index for this volume (INDEX.TAB)
accompanied by a PDS label (INDEX.LBL).

      The *.TAB file is an ASCII file.  Each line (or record) in INDEX.TAB
contains information about a single data file in this data archive volume.

      Each line in the *.TAB file is made up of seven comma-delimited
fixed-length fields.  Four 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 file describes the format and content of the *.TAB
file at the byte level.  Simply stated, the fields are:

              number of the volume
              path name to the PDS detached label for each data file
                 (or, in the case of text files, the path to the file itself)
              name of the data file
              original file name, if the file came from another source
                 where it was named differently
              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