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Re: CHAT: browsers

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Monday, February 10, 2003, 21:17
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
Subject: Re: CHAT: browsers


> And unless the English language has > changed since last time I learned the expression, "largely fitting" means > fitting with a lot of free space left, which is quite the case when you
put a
> 360KB programme on a 1.41MB floppy.
I would think of something that "largely fits" as something that "mostly fits", i.e., a whole lot of clothes stuffed into a suitcase. You might not get it quite all in, but it'll fit, for the most part. So perhaps a 1.45MB program on a 1.44 floppy. But that doesn't seem to fit the meaning either, as such a program would not function missing its 0.01MB.