[mercury-users] seek_binary

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Nov-2002, Noel  Pinto <cool4life at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> 
> offset means counteract, compensate, counterbalance.

And other things as well.  In this case it just means a value (positive
or negative) which will be added to another value. 

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