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From: andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
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Subject: Re: random numbers?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 01:45:56 GMT
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In article <292@kyzyl.mi.org> tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik) writes:
>Would it be difficult to put into the Config script, a check to see if
>either random(BSD) or lrand48(SYSV) exist, and to allow Perl to use them?

Random is part of the freed BSD sources.  Perl could be distributed with
it, potentially.

Andy Fyfe					andy@cs.caltech.edu