Short Take: Office 98 for the Mac patch issued

Microsoft issued a patch for an Office 98 for Macintosh bug that appends supposedly deleted files to other documents. Like Windows 95, Mac OS 8 deletes only the reference to the files--not the whole file--leaving the original information intact but inaccessible. The software company calls the patch Microsoft Office 98 Updater.

July 30, 1998 5:10 p.m. PT

issued a patch for an Office 98 for Macintosh bug that appends supposedly deleted files to other documents. Like Windows 95, Mac OS 8 deletes only the reference to the files--not the whole file--leaving the original information intact but inaccessible. The software company calls the patch Microsoft Office 98 Updater.