I stumbled on the thread with same/similar issues -- in particular, besides the timestamp comparison writing/updating years-old files, even with the /CF switch it's copying everything even when it doesn't exist in the target --- short section illustrates...

CONFIG.NT identical here I'll add it to the path to remove that as a variable in further testing although I've run it forever up to now w/ only and alias and the Brief path-specific environment variables w/ no issues. --

I never (for real, anyway) use CMD.EXE either -- I only tried it as an experiment to see if symptoms or error messages were any different. The plot thickens -- I modified the bflags variable in stages back to nothing and then added back -D101key and VOILA!!! success. :) Great, I says, I'll...

Noticed that as well and agree the author appears to be quite proud of the full version. Wasn't clear to me from the info provided that even that version actually would be fully compatible w/o the macro compiler unless one could build/compile macros w/ the real Brief and it could interpret...

New one to me--hadn't known of this late incarnation. It is a completely new work that apparently mimics the original Brief w/ a couple of exceptions -- the foremost being it doesn't yet include the macro compiler. It doesn't say whether it can interpret existing Brief macros or not--one would...

OK, as a starter I'll agree I'm an old fogey, but... :) I still prefer to use the old DOS Brief editor. With some effort and the aid of a batch file to translate to/from long file names, it has continued to work for me up to and including XP under 4NT. Until, that is, just recently. After...