A perl script to convert a Visual SourceSafe project to a Mercurial repository is available from this page:
* http://trojanfoe.googlepages.com/visualsourcesafetomercurialmigrationtool
It is based on the Visual SourceSafe-to-Subversion script published here:
* http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/
It has been tested under Windows XP using ActivePerl 5.10.0.