Re: Random number access on the i5

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Villa wrote:

> > What do you need the random number to do?
>
> pick a record in a table, if the random number is < 1 or >  the number
> of records in the file, get another number and repeat until done.

Scott and several others have posted code that uses C rand() and 
srand().  This ought to be somewhat portable across all platforms. 
Here's one http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200104/msg00589.html

These are standard C library routines, and ought to have enough 
provenance to get you going without having to try to make your own 
algorithm.

  --buck