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From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Battleship source for Unix w/curses
Message-ID: <4336@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 23:17:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 23:17:30 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Mar-86 04:15:59 EST
References: <314@drivax.UUCP> <9200033@uiucdcs>
Reply-To: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Summary: 

>> My problem, however, is with the pattern that the ships are set up in.  
>> The first time you play the game (every time you play it) the pattern that
>> the ships are in is identical.

>That's easy. Just insert a "srand(getpid());" somewhere in the beginning
>of the program, before the first "rand" call.

That'll still have the same problem. getpid() will return the same pid
each time the same user runs it, thus you would get the same seed for
rand each time. Try srand(time()); instead.

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