In article <m18iFq8-000hyUC@gdmssup01.vancpower.com>,
	randal_m_bates@dom.com writes:
> Or, alternatively, a suggestion where I might find such direction?

You should take a look at the source of "xsetroot" which are available
in the directory "xsrc/xc/programs/xsetroot" of NetBSD's X11 sources.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/