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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Subject: Re: Random number generator
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.232437.19190@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Mar20.173807.1975@sj.ate.slb.com>, bob@sj.ate.slb.com (Bob Firestine) writes:
|> I am seeking random number generator, preferably written in C, that produces
|> exactly the same results as the standard UNIX rand() function.  

  Telnet to "quiche.cs.mcgill.ca", log in as "archie" with no password, type
"set search exact" and then type "prog rand.c" and you will get a list of
archive sites that have freely redistributable sources for rand(3).

  You probably want this one, although you will have to modify the #include's
at the top unless you have ANSI C header files:

Host uunet.uu.net   (192.48.96.2)
Last updated 23:36  6 Mar 1991

    Location: /bsd-sources/lib/libc/stdlib
      FILE      r--r--r--      1358  Jun  1  1990   rand.c

There's a man page too:

Host uunet.uu.net   (192.48.96.2)
Last updated 23:36  6 Mar 1991

    Location: /bsd-sources/lib/libc/stdlib
      FILE      r--r--r--      1838  May 16  1990   rand.3

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