Re^3: Merging files, 1 line for every 10

OK. But doing a "1 line from file A followed by 9 lines from file B", you are actually handling a degenerate case where all requests are artificially spaced in an even way. Wouldn't it be more "real" to randomly determine from which file to read the next request:

if (int(rand(10) = 0)) {
    # read from file A
} else {
    # read from file B
}
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