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From: davis@muscle.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Stopping screen output of background job
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Date: 12 Feb 90 08:01:43 GMT
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Loading gnus from within emacs is slow-- it takes several minutes. What I want
to do is start emacs by typing:

                  emacs -f gnus &

running emacs gnus in the background. However it writes to the
screen--something I don't want. I cannot do 'stty tostop' because it will stop
the job and defeat the purpose of setting up gnus while I do other things. How
do I make emacs (or any other program) run in the background but write to
/dev/null instead of the screen and then when I bring it into the forground
with 'fg %' have it write to the terminal?


                                    Thank You,
                                    John E. Davis

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