How to: Get Help for Visual SourceSafe Commands
When working on the command line, you can launch the Visual SourceSafe Help viewer for a description of a Visual SourceSafe command. The description will include a command definition, the options that the command supports, and an example of command use.
To get help for a command:
Open an MS-DOS command window.
Set the SSDIR and SSUSER environment variables, as described in Setting Database Options.
On the command line, type "ss Help" or "ss /?" to get a list of the commands that are available from the command line.
For help on a specific command, type "ss Help <command>".