Hello All :)
Never, Ever reseed with the same value (predictable answer :) )
Also, Seed with the Clock should be more than adequate unless you got
some really really stringent (sp) requirements....
Art "reliving nightmares of programming classes hehehe " Bahrs
P.S. Wirt posted somethign on this some years ago IIRC that really covered
the subject well... and COBOL can call other language routines :)
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Greetings,
I agree with Keven Miller's posting. It sounds like the original poster
is re-seeding the random number generator on every call. Just seed it
on the first call, during program initialization. Then omit the
parameter on subsequent calls. Also, note that the seed should be an
integer in the range 0 through 999999999.
Walter
Walter J. Murray
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