Robert, Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to turn all the headers off but there is still one number (which seems to be thre string length) that I can not turn off. If this is unable to be turned off then I will proceed to the Case Study you mentioned. Brian Brian Nantz wrote:

I am using serialization split member (save & load) and it works great. I am using a text archive, but I do not want the framework to put the "version header" in the string (e.g. 22 serialization::archive 4 1303 ).

This is the serialization library version. When you create the archive you can specify the flag no_header to suppress it. I want to simply serialize the

string and handle the versioning myself in the load function. Is there a way to turn this off?

THis sounds like your talking about class version - which is different from the above. this can be suppressed on a class by class basis. in the documentation Reference Serializable Concept Class Serialization Traits Implementation level.

If not, where can I find detailed documentation on implementing a custom archive or build in another type of serialization (other than binary and xml nvp)? I have looked through mailing lists and documentation but I don't see a detailed description of how to extend the design.

Try looking at Case Studies Derivation from an existing archive cass

Brian

Robert Ramey