Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!dn5
From: DN5@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Random help, please
Message-ID: <69823DN5@PSUVM>
Date: 2 Feb 89 20:56:21 GMT
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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Hi netlanders:

  I am working on a DA which needs some random numbers.  My problem is that
I always get the same sequence.  I have tried setting randSeed, but this
doesn't seem to do anything (actually I set it before I call Random, then
save this value, then reset the original value, so that it won't mess up
an application).  However, anything I do (including attempting a FOR loop
repeating for a somewhat random time (GetTimeDate + CountTicks), seems to
do nothing: I still get the same sequence.

  I am working on a Mac II under Multifinder.  This is a nasty problem,
because everything else works.

  Another problem: How do I submit something to comp.sources.mac?  I would
like to submit this DA whenever it is finished.

                               Jay, etc... (D. Jay Newman)
ps.
  I am using MPW 3.0 B something.