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How To Set Up SourceSafe for the Macintosh Manually

Article ID: 132703

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

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This article was previously published under Q132703

SUMMARY

An alternative to running 'UserStartup SSInst' to setup SourceSafe on the Macintosh is to set up the environment variables and settings for SourceSafe manually.

MORE INFORMATION

The following procedure describes how to setup SourceSafe for Macintosh manually for use with the Macintosh Programmers Workshop (MPW) or ToolServer.

  1. Start MPW or ToolServer (see your documentation on these tools for additional information on setting up and using these tools).
  2. Open the startup script for MPW or ToolServer and add an entry that sets the SSDIR environment variable to the folder where the SRCSAFE.INI file is located (by default this will be the SrcSafe folder).

    For example, if you are using MPW and your SRCSAFE.INI file is located in the SrcSafe folder, your entries would be: 
          set ssdir "HD:srcsafe:"
      export ssdir
    where 'HD' is your harddrive name and 'srcsafe' is the SourceSafe folder.
  3. Add an entry that sets the SSUSER environment variable to a valid username. If you are running SourceSafe for the first time, and you have not added any usernames, use the username 'guest'.

    For example, if you are using MPW your entry would be: 
          set ssuser guest
      export ssuser
    NOTE: For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    131956 How to Run the Macintosh SourceSafe SSADMIN Tool

  4. Add an entry that creates an alias 'ss' for the SourceSafe Macintosh executable.

    For example, if you are using MPW your entry would be: 
          alias ss "HD:srcsafe:mac:ss"
    where 'HD' is the harddrive name and 'srcsafe:mac:ss' is the complete path to the SourceSafe executable.
  5. Close and restart MPW or ToolServer. You should be able to execute SourceSafe commands, for example: 
          ss dir

REFERENCES

Please see the 'SourceSafe 3.04 Command Line Reference', or 'SourceSafe 3.1 Reference Manual' for additional information on SourceSafe commands.

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