Do I have to seek after each read using ifstream?

This is the loop I have for reading from a file of any size, and writing to a 1016 byte char* packet 1016 bytes each time then sending it (sending not included yet). Is the seekg() necessary? Or does reading move the pointer to the front of the next chunk already? ``` ifstream file (packet.message, ios::in|ios::binary|ios::ate); if(file.is_open()) { size = file.tellg(); file.seekg(0, ios::beg); for(int i = 0; !ios::eof; i++) { memset(packet.message,0,1016*sizeof(char)); file.read(packet.message,1016*sizeof(char)); file.seekg(i*1016*sizeof(char)); } } ``` I know this isn't an issue for writing to a file, since you just keep writing to the end until the file is the right size. Edit: added the whole bit of code in the if statement.