investigate which kind of stream buffer stringstream is using. Re-use that buffer in creating a new archive. Robert Ramey "Rich Peters" <rpeters@micro-magic.com> wrote in message news:99f885c90710160909q3928a9fet4e48ba8e1eda2e7e@mail.gmail.com... I saw an example where boost serialized a text archive to a strstream for sending via a socket. I would like to do something similar, but for binary data. Is there a way to do the binary serialization to a memory buffer, and then send it elsewhere? It doesnt seem like strstream and boost::archive::binary_oarchive would mix correctly. I have also seen some discussion regarding a binary_iostreams library, but its doesnt look like that exists yet. thanks Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users