Message written at 27 Oct 1998 21:58:28 +0000
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Nothing was removed that I know of.  rnd and birnd still exist and are
i-rate random numbers in range (o,x) and (-x,x) or I thought [0,x) and
(-x,x) 
  Are you saying that they do not work?