From: "Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: random numbers
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:11:20 +0100
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Simon De Deyne wrote in message <7nn5h5$1v1$1 AT trex DOT antw DOT online DOT be>...
>Hi,
>
>Does anybody know how to use random numbers when using
>gcc? Normally something like randomize() and random(10)
>works to generate 10 integers on my MS-dos PC, but now i'm
>trying to compile some stuff using djgpp and it doesn't work.
>The faq said something about it, but only referred to the possibility
>of using a rand(), but this doesn't allows setting limits to possible
>random numbers.


There are two random number functions in DJGPP rand() and random(). Both
random() and rand() produce numbers between 0 and RAND_MAX.

So to produce a random number between 0 and 99
x = rand() % 100;

>Sorry if this might sound a bit too simple a problem, but i just started
>out with djgpp.


Problems tend to be simple if you know the answer, hard if you don't ;-)