On Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:47:58 -0500, you wrote:
In DOS, the keyboard, mouse, and disk drives run on interrupts, not timers. If you use a timer as a spinner, such as the Windows GetCurrentTime() function, (I MSec. resolution) and check its value each time a key is pressed
[...] I'd also recommend using mouse clicks. I think that most windows users (going from personal experience) spend much more time clicking through messages than typingon the keyboard. A combination of several events should provide 'even better' randomness. Brian ------- <blane@aa.net> -------------------- <http://www.aa.net/~blane> ------- Embedded Systems Programmer, EET Student, Interactive Fiction author (RSN!) ============== 11 99 3D DB 63 4D 0B 22 15 DC 5A 12 71 DE EE 36 ============