Mark4Flies at aol.com is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Since then I have poured over the C and Smalltalk code in parallel and just 
> can't find a single discrepency. Then again, the hardest task is to find 
> fault in one's own work...
Absolutely; thus the virtues of code reviews, pair programmming, open
source etc. 

> I am new to the idea of plugins. I suspect that they are a mechanism to take 
> a foreign code (like these C programs), in whole or in part, and encapsulate 
> it with a Smalltalk interface. Yes?
Sort of. Go to the swiki (http://http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.1 and look up 'plugins' for more than you probably want to know.
> 
> << What would be most useful? >>
> 
> I really appreciate your help on this problem but I honestly do not have a 
> clue how to answer this question.
Then we must hope that somebody who is really keen on random numbers is
listening and can offer us both some asistance!

tim

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Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
Foolproof operation:  All parameters are hard coded.