freeing the prompt

[azeem ahmad]

>From: "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: RE: freeing the prompt
>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:53:52 -0500
>
>Hi there --
>
>Typically you can end the command with the '&' symbol to background the job 
>and
>free the command prompt.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
>Behalf Of azeem ahmad
>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:20 PM
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: freeing the prompt
>
>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
>can u guys tell me about the command
>Regards
>Azeem
>
>

the & doesnt seem to work with a scrip
when i run
./dicom -v & it works in its ordinary manner and captures the prompt :(
Regards
Azeem