RED v7.0 is a full-screen text editor. Different from common text edtiors, RED provides three modes: an edit mode, an insert mode and an overtype mode which decreases the use of control keys, much like the vi editor. RED also provides not only basic cursor movement and editing features, but a search that allows wild cards, replacement, undo, and block operations. From a technical point of view, RED contains two chief accomplishments: the screen is updated quickly, and arbitrarily large files are handled quickly. These achievements do not sacrifice portablity. In addition, the size of the .EXE file is 35K, incredibly small.

CPP v5.3 is a modern C preprocessor. With one minor exception, where CPP will complain about duplicate macro definitions, CPP conforms to the ANSI C standard. CPP provides several command line options to include comments in the output file, define and identifier, allow nested comments, specify search paths for include files, and cancel the effect of the first definition of a macro.

Both RED and CPP will compile with Microsoft C v5.0 or later and Turbo C v2.0 under MS-DOS. Make and link files have been included for both compilers. The source code has been revised to take advantage of the latest features of the draft ANSI standard of January, 1988. Function prototypes and other modern features are used throughout.

The distribution disk for both RED and CPP includes complete C source code, excellent documentation, make files, and programs with a debugging session of Edward K. Ream's Sherlock debugging system.