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From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: random numbers?
Summary: -Drand=random -Dsrand=srandom
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Date: 13 Feb 91 20:23:56 GMT
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In article <11422@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>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?
>
>Well, you can probably get away with -Drand=random -Dsrand=srandom.

That's what I've been doing for the last ~6 months.  No problem so
far.  I even suggested it to Larry a while ago, by private email, but
this may not be a high priority.

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