Ian Thurlbeck wrote:

Could anyone tell me how to seed the random number generator ?

I can do:

Randomize; writeln(Random);

but I want something like:

RandSeed(67); // SeedRandom ?? writeln(Random);

This question comes exactly at the right time. :-) The latest snapshot, released last Friday (19990813) contains a SeddRandom procedure in the GPC unit. With earlier versions, you're out of luck... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/ GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html