The file will contain any metadata (attributes and interprocess messages) that is generated by the PI provided software, and records containing a time and data for all dependent variables. A separate list of metadata is provided in appendix A, and this list specifies for each attribute whether it is generated by the RDA software or the PI provided software. Metadata that is already provided via the skeleton file is not listed in this document.
A separate file should be generated for each CDF to be written. Thus, for each day's data, there should be five ASCII files produced per instrument. One file is to contain the Summary Parameter data and the other four are to contain Prime Parameter data for each spacecraft separately. Each file should be independently complete, that is, they will all contain the full metadata information.