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<<On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:52:55 -0800, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> said:

> found out the hard way that vi needs randomness to run when I was doing

vi doesn't need randomness to run.  However, some overzealous coder
may have changed it to waste good randomness when all it needs to do
is feed its PRNG.  I have seen several instances of this (not naming
names) but did not think to protest.

-GAWollman



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