From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Uptime and entropy in DOS
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Is it possible to get the uptime of a DOS system?  I need more entropy
than the 32 bits I get from time(NULL) to initialize a pseudorandom
number generator.  Is there a predictable way to get at least 64 bits
of entropy?

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