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Old 11-21-2007
bobbygsk bobbygsk is offline
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Use the rand() command

1) List the filenames to a file
2) Use rand(no. of filenames in the file)
3) Use the result of the rand() as the position of the filename list in the file.
4) Get the filename to ftp