run external command and let it go

[John Russell]

Can anyone tell me how I can run an external process (like a temrinal
or a browser) from emacs.  I know shell-command does this, but I
really don't care about the output of the command, so the Shell output
and Async output buffers are just annoying when they come up.  I
really just want to launch a command and then be done with it.  Any
ideas? Thanks.

John