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From: rwhelan@lion.axion.bt.co.uk (richard whelan)
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Subject: Compiling error on Dragon
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Date: 10 May 89 11:34:02 GMT
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Can somebody help please.

In trying to compile dragon i've come to a problem. When linking I get an 
error saying that `initstate' is an undefined external. This statement 
only occurs in board.c as follows :-

/*--Set up the random number generator. */

    {   extern char *initstate();
        static char     data[32];
#if 0
        (void)initstate( (unsigned)time((long*)0), &data[0], sizeof(data) );
#endif
        (void)initstate( 123456, &data[0], sizeof(data) );
    }

Not actually being fluent in `C' i'm not entirely sure, but shouldn't there 
be another procedure defining initstate. If so where is it because I haven't 
got it.

Thanks in advance.

				Richard Whelan

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