Bat Magic disappeared from this BBS a few days ago, and has now
reappeared as part of a new message base. Maybe I did't miss too
many good batch file solutions during that time!

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Here is a little program for generating a random number between 0
and 99.

Sample batch:

@echo off
RAND > RandNum.bat
call RandNum
echo The random number placed in the environment is %RAND%.

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 n RAND.COM
 a
 MOV    AH,2C
 INT    21h             ;Time
 MOV    AL,DL
 PUSH   AX
 PUSH   AX
 MOV    AX,CS
 MOV    DS,AX           ;DS_SGMT_CHG
 MOV    AH,09
 MOV    DX,0135
 INT    21              ;Display_String
 POP    AX
 XOR    AH,AH
 MOV    BX,000A
 MOV    CX,0002
 XOR    DX,DX
 DIV    BX
 ADD    DX,+30
 PUSH   DX
 LOOP   11C
 MOV    CX,0002
 MOV    AH,02
 POP    DX
 INT    21              ;Display_Output
 LOOP   12B
 POP    AX
 MOV    AH,4C
 INT    21              ;TERM_w_RtnCde
 DB     "SET RAND=$",00
 DB     D,A,"BatMagic"

 r cx
 4A
 w
 q

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 Save the script between the hash marks to an ASCII file.
 At the DOS prompt enter,  "DEBUG < filename"
 where "filename" is the name of the saved ASCII file.

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