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X-To: Rick Duley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:54:15 +0200
Reply-To: Thomas Quinot <[log in to unmask]>
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Le 2001-09-04, Rick Duley écrivait :

> I am working on a class assignment project for which I require a stream of
> random characters.  To circumvent the problem of identical lists from

Why not simply use /dev/random or /dev/urandom, a device that will
provide exactly that, and which is available on most modern operating
systems?

Thomas.

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