[Chicken-users] Reading binary files

[Magnus Therning]

My first post :-)

I need to read a file that has the following basic layout:

 table-size - 32 bits
 [ frequency - 32 bits
   byte - 8 bits]+
 message-size - 32 bits
 message ...

Now, the problem I have is that I have never used scheme for programming
on this low level before -- I have never had to read a specific number
of bytes from a file and convert those bytes to an integer. I can't find
any information on how to do it, I guess SRFI-4 is related, but from the
webpage that the chicken manual refers to[1] I can't figure it out. I
also can't find any kind of read-byte, read-32bits, or similar function
in the manual.

I'd be glad for any pointers :-)

/M

1. http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-4/srfi-4.html

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