>BP> "APPNAME\0%s\0%s\0%s\0\0"

 NF>Won't sprintf get stuck with the first \0 and think it's the
 NF>string termination?

 NF>Perhaps it should be better sprintf( buffer,
 NF>"APPNAME%c%s%c%s.....%c%c", '\0', FirstParam, '\0', SecondParam,
 NF>'\0',
 NF>....., '\0', '\0' );

All you need is:

 sprintf(string,"%s%c%s%c%c",appname,'\0',(args) ? args :
"",'\0','\0');

If there are no args (args is NULL or ""), there'll be an extra '\0' on
the end of string -- won't hurt anything.  Although you need to separate
the arguments from the appname, you don't have to separate the arguments
into separate pieces, according to the "convention used by CMD.EXE" as
detailed in the toolkit docs.  So, for an example, appname could be
"CMD.EXE" and args could be "/C DIR /W".

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