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Re: A program needed

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From: Mike Steiner
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 22:29
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In article <65164@hydra.gatech.EDU>, kh11@prism.gatech.EDU (HALL) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of a program that can take a list of people's names
> located in a file, then randomly pick, say, five names.  It would then
> tag those names as "picked", then the next time around pick another five
> names randomly until all the names were picked.
> 
> I know this is a strange request, but it's valid nonetheless.

It would be almost trivial to do this in Hypercard--possibly depending
upon the number of names on the list to begin with.
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