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From: KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: randu?
Message-ID: <91059.002619KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 91 08:26:18 GMT
References: <62349@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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In article <62349@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (Hao Zhou)
says:
>
>I am trying to port some fortran source code from vax/vms to sun/unix.
>The source code compiles on unix but doesn't link since randu couldn't
>be found.

 The subroutine RANDU comes from the CERN (the European high energy physics
 lab) program library called CERNLIB, most likely from the object library
 KERNLIB.OLB.  CERN makes their library available for a variety of platforms,
 including Unix.

>My question is how do you replace randu with rand? What is the range
>of random number given by randu?

 You'll need to check the CERNLIB documentation.  Perhaps one of your
 University colleagues has a copy.  (I'm at home and can't get to my copy
 now, sorry :-(  )
                  -Ken

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