look for "no_header" argument on archive constructor. Robert Ramey "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey@gmail.com> wrote in message news:496954360908251603w1f1726fala87172ac7ceba27f@mail.gmail.com... Hi, I'm looking at the streambuf filled with data after I do this: boost::asio::streambuf buf; std::ostream stream( &buf ); boost::archive::binary_oarchive archive( stream ); archive << "Hello World"; And I see that there's a lot of binary data that preceeds the "Hello World" data. Looks like custom header information that boost::serialization inserts into the stream. Is there a way to prevent any automatic header information from being inserted into the archive's stream? I'm using this serialized buffer to communicate with a device over a COM port and I can't have this extra information in my buffer. Thanks. --------- Robert Dailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users