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Subject: Re: Looking for a way to initialize rand
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      It helps to indicate whether you want to make a game nonrepeatable
or generate unguessable keys; the required quality varies.  One
approach is to time some disk activity, using the CPU as the clock if
necessary.  This is good for a few low-order semi-random bits.

				John Nagle