From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help: Using the clock to seed srand()
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:43:44 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> You are using real-mode tricks in a protected-mode program, which is
> why your program crashes.  You can't access absolute addresses in that
> way, because protected mode doesn't allow that.

Besides, there's an easier way to seed the random number generator using
the time, and it's ANSI C:

    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <time.h>

    srand(time(0));

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