PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT NOTE = "LISTING OF INDEX TABLE FORMAT AND CONTENT" PUBLICATION_DATE = 2010-10-20 END_OBJECT = TEXT END ***** FILE INDXINFO.TXT Index File Information NOTE: This is the original indxinfo.txt file (1996-12-19) that was included in the CD-ROM volume SL9_0004 that has now been split into individual datasets. For simplicity and historical reasons it has been preserved. This file contains a description of the index tables created for the SL9 MSSSO CASPIR data, the ESO EMMI data, the ESO IRSPEC data, and the ESO SUSI data submitted to the Small Bodies Node. The most useful tables, STDINDEX, EMMIINDX, IRSPINDX, and SUSIINDX, were based on inventory files supplied by the submitters. The index tables carry information about the scientific parameters for the experiment. On each volume, the VOLINDEX file carries information about a data entry and ancillary file. 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.