Is there a way of putting processing jobs in the background?

[B.TONGUE]

Folks,

I've written a screen-oriented program which takes 5 or so minutes
to process.  Is there a way to put the process in the background
*after* the selection has been made?  (I'm not talking about ampersands; 
isn't there a command bg or fg?)

Thanks!


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