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#Manx help

    13-Sep-90 10:13:39
Sb: #Manx help
Fm: Henry Williams 73527,1446
To: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
Hello Mike, I have another question for you about using this wonderful (and confusing to me), Manx 3.6a compiler. I want to use the random generator but don't seem to be able to get it to work. I see the Synopsis shows: double ran() .It also says that the value returned will be a number between 0.0 and 1.0 . How do I get a variable to equal the returned number? Can I put an argument (somehow) between the brackets? And how do I get the function to give me a random number between 1 to 50 for example? My gosh I have another question <smiling>. I noticed quite a few examples in the vt100 directory. If it's not too much trouble, could you tell me which ones are actually needed to make a very simple communication program, as well as any other files I will need? Thank you for any help you can give me. Henry PS: Fortunately, I don't have to feed myself by programming computers.