Re: next question....

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "GB" == Ginger Booth <address@hidden> writes:

GB> In other words, the lrand48 inavailability really sucks, for I
GB> cannot verify equivalence by match-exactly.

And you've found that across different Unix systems that seedwise,
etc. lrand48 behaves in exactly the same way?  Although I don't have a
copy of SVID, I'd be a bit surprised if things were specified that
precisely.  (We sidestep those issues by using a common implementation
on all platforms.) Anyway, note this from the lrand48 man page:

CONFORMING TO
       SVID 3
NOTES
       These  functions  are  declared  obsolete by SVID 3, which
       states that rand(3) should be used instead.    


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