$Id: README,v 1.1 1992/01/08 05:04:15 wengland Exp wengland $

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This package contains source for a portable 
Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) generator based on 
the work of Park and Miller 1988.

SEE:

 Stephen K. Park and Keith W. Miller. RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS:
 GOOD ONES ARE HARD TO FIND. Communications of the ACM,
 New York, NY.,October 1988 p.1192

INSTRUCTIONS:

 To compile and test random.c under Unix run 'make'.


HELP SAVE THE WORLD: 

 If you have bugs, fixes, etc.  Please send them to
 support@stephsf.com.  We don't guarantee to fix them 
 but, we'll certainly look at them.


KNOWN BUGS:

  It does not work using the Metaware C compiler on a 386
  CTOS (Unisys) system. I gave up and hacked it in assembler.


THEORY:

  The authors of the original ACM article are continuing research 
  and work on LCG's and are available via email.

    Stephen K. Park   park@cs.wm.edu
    Keith W. Miller   miller@cs.wm.edu
    John Burton       jcburt@cs.wm.edu

  The (random.c) software provided here is in no way sponsored  by
  them or their university.  If you have questions about the code
  please send them to me.  If you have questions about the theory
  or test results please ask them.


Have Fun!

  Bill England, wengland@stephsf.com
  Stephen Software Systems Inc., Tacoma/Seattle, +1 800 829 1684
