CCSD3ZF0000100000001NJPL3IF0PDS200000001 = SFDU_LABEL
RECORD_TYPE                     = STREAM
SPACECRAFT_NAME                 = "GALILEO ORBITER"
OBJECT                          = TEXT
    PUBLICATION_DATE            = 1999-09-15
NOTE                            = "PDS LABEL DESCRIPTION"
END_OBJECT
END


    PDS labels are object-oriented.  The object to which the label            
refers (e.g. IMAGE, TABLE, etc.) is denoted by a statement of the form:       
                                                                              
    ^object = location                                                        
                                                                              
in which the carat character (^, also called a pointer in this context)       
indicates that the object starts at the given location.  In an embedded       
label, the location is an integer representing the starting record            
number of the object (the first record in the file is record 1).  In a        
detached label, the location denotes the name of the file containing the      
object, along with the starting record or byte number if there is more        
than one object.  For example:                                                
                                                                              
    ^IMAGE_HEADER = ("XXXXX.IMG",1)                                           
    ^IMAGE = ("XXXXX.IMG",3)                                                  
                                                                              
indicates that the IMAGE object begins at record 3 of the file XXXXX.IMG,
in the same directory as the detached label file.  Below is an example
taken from a pds label on this disc showing the ^object definitions.                              

    ^IMAGE = ("XXXXX.IMG",n)                                                                              
    ^IMAGE_HEADER = ("XXXXX.IMG",n)                                               
    ^TELEMETRY_TABLE = ("XXXXX.IMG",n)                                            
    ^BAD_DATA_VALUES_HEADER = ("XXXXX.IMG",n)                                     
    ^IMAGE = ("XXXXX.IMG",n)                                                      
    ^LINE_PREFIX_TABLE = ("XXXXX.IMG",n) 
    ^LINE_PREFIX_STRUCTURE = "RLINEPRX.FMT"    
    ^DESCRIPTION = "VICAR2.TXT"
    ^STRUCTURE = "RTLMTAB.FMT" 
    ^DESCRIPTION = "BADDATA.TXT"


where                                                                         
                                                                              
    n is the starting byte number of the object, counting from      
        the beginning of the file (record 1, byte 1)                          
    
    XXXXX.IMG is the upper-case file name

    RTLMTAB.FMT, RLINEPRX.FMT, VICAR2.TXT, BADDATA.TXT are 
    format files describing the structure of the objects