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              <h1>The VSSToP4 Project</h1>
              <h2>Visual SourceSafe to Perforce Migration</h2>

              <h3>About This Project</h3>

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                <dt>Content</dt>
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                  <p>Source and documentation for Perforce's VssToP4 scripts - Perl scripts to migrate a repository 
                     from Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe into Perforce.
                  </p>
                  <ul>
                    <li><a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/">SourceFiles (via FTP)</a></li>
                    <li><a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/vsstop4.zip">Zip file of sources (via FTP)</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://public.perforce.com:8080/@md=d&amp;cd=//public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/&amp;ra=s&amp;c=CtR@//public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/?ac=83">Browse
                           Public Depot</a></li>
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                  <p>This set of Perl scripts converts VSS archives to Perforce, preserving the
                     original times and authors. Branches are translated verbatim, individual file
                     revisions are grouped as much as possible into Perforce's notion of atomic
                     changes.
                  </p>
                  <p>Requires Perl 5.6, VSS 5.0 or later and Perforce 97.3 or later.&nbsp;The scripts 
                     only run on Windows (read values from Registry).
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                  <p>Basic Files required to download are 
                    (see <a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/README.txt">readme.txt</a> for 
                    more info):
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                        <a href="http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Register.plex?id=ActivePerl">
                           ActiveState Perl</a> (5.6 most frequently tested although 5.8 works)
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                    <a href="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/vsstop4.zip">vsstop4.zip</a> 
                      (source files for conversion)</p>
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                    <li><a href="http://public.perforce.com/guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/Perl/released/p4perl56-setup-3.4804.exe">
                      P4Perl 3.4804 for Perl 5.6.6</a><b> </b>or
                      <a href="http://public.perforce.com/guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/Perl/released/p4perl58-setup-3.4804.exe">
                      P4Perl 3.4804 for Perl 5.8</a> (required interface to P4 from Perl) - newer 
                      versions of P4Perl may require updates to the scripts (install after Perl is 
                      installed).
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                  <p>These scripts are not fully supported - but feel free to contact Curator below.
                  </p>
                  <p>There are a couple of utilities available at:
                    <a href="http://public.perforce.com/guest/robert_cowham/perforce/utils/index.html">
                    http://public.perforce.com/guest/robert_cowham/perforce/utils/index.html</a> 
                    which will help with reporting on branched and deleted files in VSS, also files 
                    with illegal filenames for Perforce (e.g. containing '#' or '@' - although these 
                    are no longer illegal with version 2004.2 of the server but do require 
                    escaping).
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                <dt>Curator</dt>
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                  <p>Robert Cowham. Please email 
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                    if you have submitted contributions you'd like published, or if you have ideas for enhancement.
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              <h3>Details</h3>
              <p>See the <a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/README.txt">readme.txt</a> file. All files are 
                 downloadable from the Public Depot via FTP (see links above).
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              <h3>Updated</h3>
              <p>See <a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/CHANGELOG.txt">changelog.txt</a> 
              file.</p>

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# Change User Description Committed
#32 16015 Robert Cowham Fixed README.md formatting.
Remove README.html/txt
#31 7113 Sam Stafford Make VSStoP4 html page a redirect to the equivalent wiki page.
 This is
mainly to get duplicates out of the website search results, since
currently the two pages have basically identical content.
#30 6409 Robert Cowham Tidied
#29 6406 Robert Cowham Clarify links
#28 6251 Robert Cowham Improve link to older servers
#27 6250 Robert Cowham Point at older version for pre-2004.2 servers
#26 6241 Robert Cowham - Removed unused module Date::Dump
- Updated docs to refer to right version of P4Perl
#25 6075 michael Fix more bad navbar links.
#24 6026 rlo Public depot fixes:
* Titles formatted similarly
* Navbar changed and shortened
* Change review taken out of navbar
* Links fixed
#23 6025 rlo Public Depot Redesign goes live
* Skin matches KB and latest WWW skin
* Rudimentary search mechanism based on google
* did this already, but made some big mistakes and it was easier to obliterate and start over
* about the above: yikes!
#22 5776 Robert Cowham Upgrade to P4Perl 3.5708
#21 5652 Robert Cowham - Add more troubleshooting help to readme.html.
- Update to use P4Perl 3.5313
- Added new module utils.pm to detect and fail if wrong P4Perl version used.
#20 5560 Robert Cowham Add link to new version
#19 5439 Robert Cowham Reiterate version of P4Perl to use.
#18 5342 Robert Cowham Document that VSS 2005 not supported yet - use 6.0
#17 5315 Robert Cowham - Output script version. Changed warning message.
- Converted README.txt to README.html
#16 5301 Robert Cowham Changed ftp links to http
#15 5075 Robert Cowham - Use ->Connect() rather than Init() (version 3.4804 of the released P4Perl).
- Add troubleshooting help.
#14 4936 Robert Cowham Be specific about version of P4Perl to use
#13 4641 Robert Cowham Updated to cope with changes to P4Perl - call MergeErrors when setting up.
#12 4026 Robert Cowham Make previous change configurable rather than hard-coding and add explanation to config.ini about it.
Point Update section on web page to Changelog.txt
#11 4000 Robert Cowham Remove changes for non-P4Perl version.
Improved Web page with download links.
#10 3926 Robert Cowham P4Perl is now required for the scripts to run.
#9 3920 Robert Cowham Zip up latest changes.
#8 3815 Robert Cowham Fixed problem with line of asterisks in change comment.
#7 3798 Robert Cowham Latest changes
#6 3611 Robert Cowham Updated .zip file and web
#5 3558 Robert Cowham Fixed bug with French date formats.
Autoupdate client root and view based on config.ini entries.
#4 3557 Robert Cowham Updated .zip file reference.
Also change notes.
#3 2172 Robert Cowham Added comment
#2 2171 Robert Cowham Correct link.
Make into ktext.
#1 2170 Robert Cowham First version of web page