Use Alternate Command Line Commands

See Also CmdLine_Comment;

VSS provides two ways to customize VSS to accept alternate command syntax in place of built-in VSS command syntax.

You can define alternate commands and place them in the initialization files under the [Commands] heading. The syntax takes the form Alternate Command = Visual SourceSafe Command. For instance, a Microsoft Windows NT user might place the following in SS.INI.

[Commands]
Grep = Find
Ls = Dir

You can type the alternate command in place of the VSS command, with the same parameters and results; VSS commands continue to work too.

VSS also provides hard-coded alternate commands. The following table lists alternate commands and their VSS equivalents.