How to mount a dos floppy ?

[Bob Goodwin]

How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab? 

I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on the 
desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal with the 
file system apparently and refuses to mount.  I don't know the magic 
incantation for the command line.

I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from.

Bob Goodwin