Portable binary archive extra byte

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Mateusz Herok

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Mar 28, 2020, 9:31:31 PM3/28/20

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Hi,

The portable binary archive adds one extra byte to the beginning of file. 0x00 for bigendian and 0x01 for littlendian.

Is there a way to turn it off? I would like to get the same result as in a nonportable binary archive.

Shane Grant

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Apr 3, 2020, 1:27:58 AM4/3/20

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It is not possible to remove this byte from the portable binary archive, as one of its main purposes is to encode the endianness of the machine when serializing. If you don't need this, use the regular binary archive.