.rnd

[Fred Erickson]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Petrus de Calguarium <pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 15:28 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>>> There is a file in my home directory called .rnd. I presume it is the
>>> seed for a random number generator. What program creates/uses it? I ran
>>> yum provides */.rnd and nothing at all turned up.
>> ----

>
> Yeah, I do really, really want to know, to satisfy long-standing curiosity
> (and learn how the random number generator might serve me), but I will keep
> your suggestion on hold for the time being, in the hope that someone will be
> able to provide a direct answer to the identity of the program that created
> it.
>

Is this relevant?
http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/md