List of definition characters (upper/lowercase is important!):

Name-specific characters:

n	File name (nnnnnnnn means 8 letter file name, n* see definition of * below)

v	VMS style file name: name.ext;1 or dirname.dir;1
. (a dot)	Remove trailing spaces from file name and append further characters separated by a dot (e.g. nnnnnnnn.nnn), see PC-NFSD sample below.

Characters for date and time:
D	Day
M	Month
TTT	Three letter month name (Jan, Feb, Mar, ...), supports English, German and French.
TTT=12 month names with 3 letters each
	Allows the definition of foreign language month names. Example (polish):

TTT=stylutmarkwimajczelipsiewrzpa„lisgru
UUUUU	Unix-style year/time mix, e.g. either "2000 " or "20:30" in the same place
Y	Year
h	Hours
H	Hours modifier letter (a - a.m. time, p - p.m. time)
m	Minutes
s	Seconds

Characters for other file attributes:
S	Size
S=1024	Size multiplied with given value (here: 1024). Useful for servers which return the size in blocks.
p	Unix style permissions (e.g. -rwxrwxrwx, defines user rights)

d	dir flag, defines a directory if this char is D or d, e.g. part of text <DIR> or [DIR]
d=x	dir flag, the char defining a directory is given behind the = (see VOS sample below)

Misc. characters:
*	1. After any numeric field: use all digits up to first non-digit character
	2. For name field not at line end: use all chars up to next space
	3. For name field at line end: use all chars until the end of the line
!	Skip all characters until first space or end of line

$	Skip all spaces/tabstops until next character or end of line
\	Data continues on next line (max. 2 lines supported)
<space>	Ignore character. Must not be at the beginning of a line, because Windows would delete all leading spaces!
-	(dash) Ignore character. Use this at the beginning of a line instead of a space.
x	Exaclty 1 space. If there is a different character at this position, ignore the whole line (e.g. to ignore lines above or below the file listing, which show the free disk space etc).