In general, programs store data into files and recover existing data from files. sequential access file, such data saved in a sequential pattern. While recovering data from such files every data need to peruse one by one until the required data found.
The simplest way that C programming information is put away in a record is sequential, one byte after the other. The record contains one long stream of information.
File access in C is just another type of I/O. Instead of going to the display, the input or output goes into a file.