how to project a lat/lon shapefile to Mercator projection

[Fawcett, David]

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/projection

http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/mercator_1sp.html

http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/mercator_2sp.html





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Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] how to project a lat/lon shapefile to
Mercator projection


how to project a lat/lon shapefile to Mercator projection ?? ...
PROJECTION
  "proj=mercator"
END

in my map file is not working ...??