>>>I know absolutely nothing about unix. There's a file on a unix computer that he wants to copy to a floppy and I'm supposed to figure out how to do it.

>Well, I looked through the site and can't find any reference to floppies. I see how to copy to another directory, but how do you tell it that directory is on a floppy?

Is the unix computer networked or connected to other computer? You might be able to email or ftp the file off...