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From: CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Random
Message-ID: <89331.141717CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 27 Nov 89 19:17:17 GMT
References: <1989Nov26.011221.18046@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1989Nov26.011221.18046@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca
says:

>I have the following in LightspeedC 3.02
>
>long int ltime;
>     int number;
>
>     GetDateTime(&ltime);
>     randSeed=ltime;
>     number=Random();
>
>Everything compiles fine, but when I run, the system comes up with a
>bomb box ID 12 when it trys to do the number=Random();.   I've even
>tried it with just that line, and left randSeed set to its default
>and it still bombs.
>What am I doing wrong???

Before you can call Random(), you _must_ call InitGraf(&thePort).  This
sets up the random number generator.

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