using & for background tasks

[John]

I've just setup my system to allow my wife to telnet to my machine and
start a PPP connection.

She doesn't like having to remember to type in the & character after
executing the script. If she doesn't do this then she breaks the
connection when she closes her telnet application which is the default
win98 telnet program.

Is there any way i could force the script which starts PPP to go into
the background without the & on the command line ?