RED (Knowledge Dynamics)

.RED is an installer-archive format, apparently associated with INSTALL for DOS, and maybe other software from Knowledge Dynamics Corporation (of Canyon Lake, Texas, later San Antonio).

The identifier "RED" is probably derived from "Reduce", which is the name of a software component and a proprietary compression algorithm.

See also LIF (Knowledge Dynamics), the presumed predecessor format.

Identification
.RED files apparently start with bytes.

The  byte value is probably for the header size, so it could theoretically be different in some files. But only the value  has been observed.

Sample files

 * BBS Software Directory: PCBOARD → pcb153-*.zip → ...
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/redArchive/

Links

 * INSTALL website (1999 archive)