On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 18:43:18 -0600, Michael Oujesky <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>Does seek() actually do a direct access?  Or read, but skip the
>records from the start of the file?

seek() only reads the physical record containing the byte position. This is 
also true on Unix where physical records are called sectors.

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