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On 5/16/2022 2:18 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via 
djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>    DJGPP specific changes.
>    =======================
>
>    - The library requires an entropy source to seed the hash function.
>      This can either be a driver or a random data file.  On plain DOS
>      one such driver, NOISE.SYS, can be obtained from:
>        http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html
>      as:
>        http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/noise063a2.zip
>      Please read the instructions carefully.  This driver works on DOS
>      and may be on some versions of Windows but it does not work for all
>      versions of Windows.  For XP it does not work and I have found no
>      replacement.  Alternatively a random data file can be used.
>      It will be found by the library at run-time by evaluating the
>      RANDFILE environment variable.

Hi Juan,

Thanks for the port.  I may have some use for this under DOS. However, 
is the noise driver absolutely required to use this lib? Is there some 
reason it can't just use the regular rand() functions?  The website 
shows "under construction" when the link is followed btw.

Thanks,
Frank