the code im about to put down.. seems to run through without errors... however. when i cout out the final conversion i get wierd numbers...
but basically what i have here is create process.. im using a dummy.exe to create a txt file so i know if it works right away...

if(first4=="EXEC"){
LPWSTR szCmdline=(LPWSTR)cl.c_str();

STARTUPINFO StartupInfo;
PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcessInformation;
HANDLE hPipeRead, hpRead;
HANDLE hPipeWrite;
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa;

memset(&ProcessInformation,0,sizeof(ProcessInformation));
memset(&sa,0,sizeof(sa));
sa.nLength=sizeof(sa);
sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
CreatePipe(&hPipeRead,&hPipeWrite,&sa,0);

memset(&StartupInfo,0,sizeof(StartupInfo));
cout << "pipes and memset";
GetStartupInfo(&StartupInfo);
StartupInfo.hStdOutput = hPipeWrite;
StartupInfo.hStdInput = hPipeRead;
StartupInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESTDHANDLES | STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
StartupInfo.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;
cout << "StartupInfo Read\n";
CreateProcess(NULL, szCmdline, NULL, NULL, TRUE, 0, NULL, NULL, &StartupInfo, &ProcessInformation);
cout << szCmdline;
CloseHandle( hPipeWrite );
Sleep(100); DWORD stuff; char buff[1000]; bool firstsend; int offset = 0, bRecv;
PeekNamedPipe(hPipeRead, NULL, 0, NULL, &stuff, NULL);
if(stuff != 0) {
ZeroMemory(buff, sizeof(buff));
firstsend = true;
do {
ReadFile(hPipeRead, buff, 1000, &stuff, NULL);
if(firstsend) { send(usersock, buff + offset, strlen(buff) - offset, 0); firstsend = false; }
else send(usersock, buff, strlen(buff), 0);
} while(stuff == 1000);
} else { char ccc[128]="NoReply program run"; send(usersock, ccc, strlen(ccc), 0); }
}

//
// This is for an ftp server and webserver i have to get this create process functioning and outputing
// the dos screen info through a socket which i already have setup here and should work... but errors
// out when if statement is called... ive been playing wiht it for about 2hr... plz help
// im using Visual Studio 2005 C++ and im pretty sure this is CLR