Jerry-

Thanks very much for the quick response.

1. Re. the wording of the documentation: I hadn't meant to suggest any bad intent; my apologies. The sentence in question reads as follows:

"The PRNGs are self-seeding, automatically acquiring a (19968-bit) random seed from user-selectable sources."

Here is a suggested rewording:

"The PRNGs are optionally self-seeding, automatically acquiring a (19968-bit) random seed from user-selectable sources; the user can also seed the generator manually with a single integer or array of integers."

2. I had not realized that the .ppd file was specific to ActiveState Perl. I'm still somewhat of a Perl newbie.

3. I'm not confusing your Math-Random-MT-Auto with Math-Random-MT; I used Math-Random-MT previously, but decided to try to find an alternative because (A) Math-Random-MT does not directly support generation of Gaussian random numbers and (B) development of Math-Random-MT seems to have stopped.

4. I had not previously heard of CamelPack, but I will download it and try using it.

Thanks very much for being so patient with me!

Yours,

Phillip