Dear all, I am proud to announce the very first release of our portable_binary_[io]archive which we use here at EOS to move data between different platforms. It really is a conglomerate of pieces that already were there - as is most often the case in oo world - we simply put them together in a way that seemed to make sense. I know a lot of people were interested in portable binary archives, so here you are - give it a try and let me know what you think about it! We rely heavily on boost::serialization and really appreciate the amount of time and knowledge that flew into it. By publishing this small missing piece we hope to contribute our mite to this great library. The work extends the portable binary example which was done by Robert Ramey and uses Beman Dawes' endian library plus the fp_utilities by Johan Rade. You will need to get those two libraries in order to use our classes - look for them at the boost vault (http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/) in categories 'integer' and 'math - numerics'. Finally you will find the portable binary archive in category 'serialization' as well. Regards, Christian Pfligersdorffer -- christian.pfligersdorffer@eos.info http://www.eos.info