-=> Quoting Gautam Lad to **Anybody** <=-

 GL> Hi,
 GL> I'm trying to generate floating point random numbers under EMX/GCC,
 GL> using the random() function from the BSD libraries.  I can generate a
 GL> random number (1.2 digit), but it's always the same.  If I run the
 GL> program, for example, the number will be 0.98, and then I close the
 GL> program, and try again a few seconds later, but I get the same number.
 GL> I've changed srand(), but no luck.   Here's how I generate a number:
 GL> number = random()/9999999999.0;
 GL> This may look absurd, but I don't know of any other way to do it!

        Here's how I'm initializing the random generator in a program:

        DATETIME DateTime;
        DosGetDateTime(&DateTime);
        srandom(DateTime.hundredths*DateTime.seconds);
        // using seconds may be overkill
        ...
        number=random();
        // get a random number

        Stephane [TEAM OS/2]
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