From:	Peter Wang <tjaden AT psynet DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP's random functions.
Date:	Sat, 03 Apr 1999 04:05:51 +1000
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> Ike Gingerich wrote:
> 
>     I noticed that the functions that come with DJGPP for generating
> random numbers always spit out the random numbers in the same sequence
> each time the program is run.  This bothered me becase for games I

Look up srandom in the docs to seed the generator at the start of your
program.

eg.	srandom(time(NULL));

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