Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Gerd Schering wrote:
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2. When RANDFILE is pointing to a plain file, I notice that after each use, data is written back and the file gets larger and larger.
I understand, that it is necessary to save a new seed for the PRNG, but why is the file not simply overwritten?

I cannot reproduce this behaviour. In my case it is overwritten.

You're right! I produced some nonsense - no need to discuss this further :-)
Best regards
	Gerd Schering
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