PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT NOTE = "LISTING OF INDEX TABLE FORMAT AND CONTENT" PUBLICATION_DATE = 2002-12-04 END_OBJECT = TEXT END Index File Information This file contains a description of the index tables created for the IHW addenda data submitted to the Small Bodies Node. For those missions/ experiments for which a large number of files were archived, a separate table was created and placed into this directory designated by the experiment code. The index tables carry information about the scientific parameters for the experiment. To locate any file on the CDROM use INDEX which identifies the filename (with path), and size. The other scientific index files are given as chronological listings. There are two types of files in each subdirectory, distinguished by the extensions on the file names. The filenames themselves identify the experiment which was used to produce each index. The types of files are: *.LBL - These are PDS labels describing the data tables. They already contain pointers to the data tables, so no further steps are required to make them accessible to PDS table-processing software. *.TAB - These files contain the actual metadata records from each file. They are ASCII tables and each line ends with the characters (ASCII 13 and 10 respectively). All fields in the tables are fixed width.