Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!dpk@BRL-TGR From: dpk@BRL-TGR (Doug Kingston) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Bug in rand() and srand() Message-ID: <9065@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 00:37:45 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.9065 Posted: Fri Mar 8 00:37:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:22:33 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 8 The person in question is using 4.2BSD. I suggest he try the new 4.2 random number generator, random(). It is a very good algorithm and its standard 4.2BSD. The quality of this algorithm has discussed before on this list, so I won't reiterate it now. Doug Gwyn, you don't need System V. Don't force it on everyone. -Doug-