From:	"Crousto" <crousto AT infonie DOT be>
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Subject:	Re: randomness
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:00:54 +0100
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Jonathan a écrit dans le message
<36d335f8 DOT 5674902 AT news DOT demone1 DOT ia DOT home DOT com>...
>How is the best way to get a good random seed for use in srand()?
>
>Jonathan

You can use the BIOS function which return the system time (in milliseconds
since midnight). Also, if you have somewhere in your program a moment when
the user must press a key to continue, you can set up a loop which increment
a counter until the key is pressed : this value will be very random.

Crousto
crousto AT infonie DOT be

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