Newbie Mercury Problems - Pegasus

Flip wrote:
> After installing Mercury I can't seem to get it to run. Launching the
> .exe causes the splash screen to come up, which is followed by a
> window that begins to initialize, but it immediately shuts down
> without an error message. I've tried this on three Win XP Pro SP1
> boxes. Two of them have this problem, the third does not but it is
> not networked and won't be for a while.
>
> Anyone familiar with a problem like this? I find it hard to believe
> that it would occur on 2/3rds of my computers without it happening
> elsewhere.

no or empty mercury.ini

tomk <hot__tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c63kmv$pvo$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>...
> Flip wrote:
> > After installing Mercury I can't seem to get it to run. Launching the
> > .exe causes the splash screen to come up, which is followed by a
> > window that begins to initialize, but it immediately shuts down
> > without an error message. I've tried this on three Win XP Pro SP1
> > boxes. Two of them have this problem, the third does not but it is
> > not networked and won't be for a while.
> >
> > Anyone familiar with a problem like this? I find it hard to believe
> > that it would occur on 2/3rds of my computers without it happening
> > elsewhere.
>
> no or empty mercury.ini


I have no mercury.ini, and creating an empty one doesn't help.

Flip wrote:
> tomk <hot__tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c63kmv$pvo$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>...
>
>>Flip wrote:
>>
>>>After installing Mercury I can't seem to get it to run. Launching the
>>>.exe causes the splash screen to come up, which is followed by a
>>>window that begins to initialize, but it immediately shuts down
>>>without an error message. I've tried this on three Win XP Pro SP1
>>>boxes. Two of them have this problem, the third does not but it is
>>>not networked and won't be for a while.
>>>
>>>Anyone familiar with a problem like this? I find it hard to believe
>>>that it would occur on 2/3rds of my computers without it happening
>>>elsewhere.
>>
>>no or empty mercury.ini
>
>
>
> I have no mercury.ini, and creating an empty one doesn't help.

thats your problem. you need to have a mercury .ini file and it needs
to have the proper enrties. look at the help file.

"Flip" <flipreg2003@flipped.org> wrote in message
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> tomk <hot__tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<c63kmv$pvo$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>...
> > Flip wrote:
> > > After installing Mercury I can't seem to get it to run. Launching the
> > > .exe causes the splash screen to come up, which is followed by a
> > > window that begins to initialize, but it immediately shuts down
> > > without an error message. I've tried this on three Win XP Pro SP1
> > > boxes. Two of them have this problem, the third does not but it is
> > > not networked and won't be for a while.
> > >
> > > Anyone familiar with a problem like this? I find it hard to believe
> > > that it would occur on 2/3rds of my computers without it happening
> > > elsewhere.
> >
> > no or empty mercury.ini
>
>
> I have no mercury.ini, and creating an empty one doesn't help.

You'll want to re-install Mercury to get a good copy of mercury.ini.
Afterwords, create a backup of that file, in case something goes wrong.
Improper configurations have been know to crash mercury in such a way to
ruin mercury.ini.

Tom

It's not creating a mercury.ini file during installation, and I've
tried reinstalling several times. When I get access to that third PC
of mine, I'll see if it has a mercury.ini and try to copy it over.

flipreg2003@flipped.org (Flip) wrote in message news:<96944e80.0404231239.6bed33e6@posting.google.com>...
> It's not creating a mercury.ini file during installation, and I've
> tried reinstalling several times. When I get access to that third PC
> of mine, I'll see if it has a mercury.ini and try to copy it over.

Yep, it worked fine when I copied over the mercury.ini file. Thanks
for the help. Any idea why it wasn't creating the file on two
different computers?