Visual Source Safe Get

[martys]

I set the environment variables SSUSER and SSPATH to the values I'm using externally, and this fixed the problem.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem was, but it seems like SS.exe wasn't picking up the SSPATH variable that Visual Build was setting, and was therefore showing similar output to what I saw when I ran the command manually (without setting the environment variable). I couldn't verify this entirely, because it wasn't showing a command window, of course, but in a process manager, I saw that SS.exe wasn't using any CPU, and was not accessing any files at any time, so it was obviously not hanging as in an infinite loop, but rather, as in waiting for user input. So perhaps it is being run in a different environment than the environment variables are being set in, in my configuration. I can't imagine why, but setting the variables permanently fixed the problem.