How do I get random #s?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <25745 at apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer at Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>... C was evidently designed by people who didn't need random
>numbers - the standardized rand() doesn't allow a seed to be
>specified, making it useless when you need independent streams of
>random numbers.

Please read manual before flaming about it.  The V7 rand() allowed a
seed to be specified, as (I think) did earlier ones.  And so does
ANSI C (Oct draft) -- in fact the ANSI C spec for rand() is essentially
the V7 one.  If the C you use has broken this, complain to your supplier.
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