text_combined: rafael garciasuarez pvhuhqgncrxnugmailcom 03102007 via rt ben linuxgazette net wrote perldoc f srand consequently perlfuncpod contains following note need something much random default seed cryptographic purposes checksumming compressed output one rapidly changing operating system status programs usual method example srand time unpack l ps axww gzip problem ps axww gzip returns output every time least system bentyr ps axwwgzip gzip compressed data written terminal use f force compression help type gzip h solution suggested error message ie ps axww gzip f works fine thanks ive updated docs accordingly wed 06 aug 2008 014512 0200 perl 46019 documentation srand problem code snippet