CreateProcess() passing cmd line args

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From: CC
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 20:14

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Greetings;
I'm using CreateProcess() to invoke another program.

Ex:
char *appname = "c:\mytest.exe";
char *args="/myarg1";

When I call :

CreateProcess(appname, args, .......);

When application "mytest.exe"  calls  ParamCount(), the value is Zero.

It seems to be that I cannot pass arguments as the 2nd parameter to
CreateProcess()?

The application does work when I include the full command line such as:
char *fullcmdline = "c:\mytest.exe /myarg1";
CreateProcess(NULL,fullcmdline,.....);
This works,

I'm really confused on how to call this api - should arguments passed in
separately? or on full command line?
What then is the purpose of having the first 2 parameters for
CreateProcess() Why not have just a
command line?

Any insight would be much appreciated.
Thanks
CurtC

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