Suppressing certain system messages

[Terry O'Coin]

	I am looking for a way to suppress the system messages
printed to the terminal when a job is started up in the background.

        I mean, for example, when this command is issued :

		<program> <arg list> &

	a message such as  "[1] 1244" is sent to the terminal
        notifying the user of the job number and process id.

	When the process finishes, an exit message such as
		
		[1] Done ....     
	
	is printed on the terminal.


	I would appreciate any suggestion anyone has on how
      to suppress these start and finish process messages.

	If you feel others would not be interested, please
      reply to me directly.  Thank you in advance.

       
	
				Terence P. O'Coin
				P & W A
				E. Hartford, Connecticut

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