-------------------------------1164736281 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Surely it must be possible to initialize rand with current date and time. Documents seem to indicate this is done with rand(0) or srand with no value. I have tried both methods and I get the same tired old sequence of numbers. I would write my own random number generator except I don't know how to get a numeric value out of Time. Charles Gray -------------------------------1164736281--