-=> Quoting Sean Price to All <=-

 SP> Hello all!

 SP> Does anyone have code for a random seed that'll make a program
 SP> generate a different random number each time it's run?  Something that
 SP> uses a system timer would probably work best.  I wrote a bitmap
 SP> changer a long time ago and have been cleaning it up and adding some
 SP> features so I can release it as freeware.  I'm using Watcom v.10.0 and
 SP> the closest thing I could find to what I'm looking for is the clock()
 SP> function, but this is ticks since the program's start which will be
 SP> almost identical each time the program  is run. 

    I (unfortunately) Don't know much about "C" in generaly (in
Pascal we have 
the RANDOMIZE procedure). But for a generally "different" number
on each run, 
the one thing that comes to mind is the millisecond timer.
DosQuerySysInfo - QSV_MS_COUNT
    Seems to me that this would give you a "fairly" random seed
(or at least a 
reason resistence to duplication.

Dave...

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