copy to floppy

Something weird is happening. I am trying to copy some email to a floppy disk
but it won't. Here is what happens:

    knoppix@bmike1:~$ cd '/home/knoppix/Mail/Maryna/cur'
    knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$ cp * /mnt/floppy
    knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$

Looks good from your point of view, right? but the floppy was not accessed at
all. Upon further investegation I have discovered that there is a file
/mnt/floppy on my harddrive and within this file resides all the messages I
wanted to go to the floppy.

    knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$ ls
    1070092437.701.lqJF:2,RS  1070594725.594.vabU:2,S etc.....
    knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$ 

I would have liked to do this via the floppy icon on the desktop but when I
tried it the response I got was:

    Could not write to /mnt/floppy/<file>

Any ideas as to what I should do?
Something that may help in figuring out what to do is that after a koffice
application is loaded if I clik the floppy icon it accesses the disk
properly.
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<:-)~MIKE~(-:>






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