Re: [Boost-users] Serialization of an object with multiple formats

a) you shouldn't want to do this b) you shouldn't have to do this If you want to do this anyway, try class Foo { void serialize(boost::archive::binary_iarchive & ar, const unsigned int version); void serialize(boost::archive::text_iarchive & ar, const unsigned int version); void serialize(boost::archive::binary_oarchive & ar, const unsigned int version); void serialize(boost::archive::text_oarchive & ar, const unsigned int version); }; Rober Ramey