Stopping screen output of background job

[John E. Davis]

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

internet:  davis at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu 
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