<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div>Hi Tim/all,</div><div><br></div><div>We will be moving mesh and Tag data via messaging between processes from memory to memory. We see this as a need to marshall the imesh/moab structures in whole and in part over a message stream. I was wondering if you could help me understand how we would go about implementing our own serialization/deserialization strategy. The src/io directory seems to be the repository of existing I/o strategies; where are the interfaces for integrating a new I/O mechanism? The messaging protocol supports the typical set container classes, and handle based referencing.</div><div><br></div><div>Also are there utilities for slicing (writing/reading portions of) the mesh?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div>Chris</div></div></body></html>