Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 16:27:35 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: WANKADIA PAUL SAPAL MICHAEL <wanpsm98 AT octarine DOT cc DOT adfa DOT oz DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: PROBLEM WITH FUNCTION RAND()
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On 10 May 1998, WANKADIA PAUL SAPAL MICHAEL wrote:

> "C.Rothwell" <enquiries AT aditfree DOT com> writes:
> 
> >You could be clever and use the system clock to get a random number that was
> >diffrent every time you ran the program.
> 
> I tried that once and discovered that rawclock() always returns 0 (for 
> some ungodly reason).

Try harder.  There are time-related library functions other than 
`rawclock', use them instead.  The usual practice is to use the output of 
`time' as the seed, since `time' is ANSI-standard, whereas `rawclock' 
isn't.