Folks,
Thanks to those who took the time to answer my question, here comes
the summary:
>From Dave Hughes @att and Michael "Crash" Bukva @Fujitsu Australia and Frank G
@lehman:
The Korn Shell, /bin/ksh, automatically sets a variable called
$RANDOM which is a random number.
>From Gary Parker @Johnson & Johnson:
perl -e 'printf("%.",rand(srand(time()))*100)'
>From Peter Allan in UK:
A book in Numerical Recipies series. Well, This is too much for me
but thanks anyway.
Many Thanks,
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Khanh Vo e-mail: khanh.t.vo@bagate.bell-atl.com
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