freeing the prompt

[Tim]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:20 +0000, azeem ahmad wrote:
> i have a program that captures the terminal, mean when i run it it shows 
> some outputs on that terminal, i want it to run it in background, i remember 
> there is some thing to do with redirecting its output to /dev/null, but it 
> simply hides the output, it doesnt free the prompt

Append an ampersand after it.  e.g. firefox &

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