From:	myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Random implementation
Date:	29 Jan 1998 00:39:44 GMT
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I have tried to do random numbers before without success.  Now I think I know
why.  In the info documentation's alphabetical list, there is no mention of
srand().  And there's no cross reference to srand() from rand().

I was able to glean from this thread that you're supposed to do something like
this:
#include        <stdio.h>
#include        <stdlib.h>
#include        <time.h>
#include        <bios.h>

int main(void)
{
    char c;
    
    while((c=bioskey(0))!='x'){
      printf("%-10c", c);
      srand(time(0));
      printf("And the random number is...   %d\n", rand());
    }
        
    return 0;
}

But if this is right, how would a beginner find it out?  (Besides, of course,
reading about it from an outside source.)

--Ed (Myknees)

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