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

What are you seeding?  Try using time(NULL), for an example.  For another
example, pilfer SNIP9509.* from some BBS around there that gets the PDNCEE
file echo, as it has a lot of C/C++ code in there, including a few random
number generators and at least one seed generator for the RNG's.


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