From:	br5an AT aol DOT com (Br5an)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Automatically seeding random numbers
Date:	4 Feb 1998 22:40:15 GMT
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Jason wrote:

<<  Basically, I'd like a program to (automatically) seed srand() with a
different value each time the program is run. (Currently I require the
user to type in a seed, which is a nuisance.)  Initially, I thought
something as simple as srand(clock()) would work, but then I found out
that clock() only returns the number of clock ticks since the *last*
call of clock(), so clock() always returns the value 0 when called for
the first time.>>

I think   srand(time(NULL));   might be what your looking for.

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