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On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:52:45 -0400,   Brian Freeman <bef126@psu.edu>

>My question is how do I copy just a single file off my floppy disk to my
>home dirrectory in FreeBSD or maybee can this be done?

Besides what Doug White mentioned, mounting the floppy, you can also
get "mtools" from the packages. They are under emulation. These tools
will let you do operations on the floppy drive without having to
mount it. Some of the things it supports: mdir, mcopy, mformat.