From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 8 04:55:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA11862 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:55:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (F14.hotmail.com [207.82.250.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11857 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:55:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by hotmail.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA25810; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:55:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:55:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703081255.EAA25810@hotmail.com> Received: from 137.229.17.253 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 08 Mar 1997 04:55:17 PST X-Originating-IP: [137.229.17.253] From: " steve howe" To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: profile/alias Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i posted a problem i find with ~/.profile aliaseson "questions", then "hackers" and never received any responses. \ i have double & triple verified this problem and wonder if i am posting in the wrong maillist or if i am in serious error in some way ... ? \ also, to answer a question of my own - to anyone interesting in programming - it appears most output/format control is in "ncurses.h", \ however - i am still at a loss to find a C function that will tell me if a key has been pressed, w/o actually waiting for a char. something like DOSs "kbhit()". \ i also cannot find any info on "random()" seeds. "jot(1)" uses "random()" and generates completely fresh/different random outputs, as well as DOS random functions i've used, but no matter how i seed "srandom()" - "random()" always outputs the same output with the same seed. in my past experience, there is usally a seed that will always put out a varied sequence (0 or 1 or something ...) --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------