[ale] i just don't "get" it yet

[ChangingLINKS.com]

Okay. My user account has permission to write to /data (I use /data all day 
everyday). I have even tried created a file (using an editor) called 
/data/CLbackup.tgz to try to trick ftp into trasferring the file.
The commands below are what I entered. You can see the variations on a theme 
to try to get it to work. I am thinking /data is is not a subdirectory of 
anything, moreover, when I omit "/data" to get the file to copy to 
/home/user, it still doesn't work. The issue does not seem to be related to 
/data.  TIA  for your  help.


ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (209,211,232,3,79,56)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 7892
-rw-rw-r--   1 834      835        949774 Apr 16 13:03 CLbackup.tgz
-rw-rw-r--   1 834      835       3070111 Apr 16 13:03 dbbackup.txt
drwxr-xr-x   7 834      835          1024 Apr 16 13:04 public_html
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data
local: /data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
local: /data: No such file or directory
ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz tb1200:/data
local: tb1200:/data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
local: tb1200:/data: No such file or directory
ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz 
local: ./home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
local: ./home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz: No such file or directory
ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data
local: /data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
local: /data: No such file or directory
ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data/
local: /data/ remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
local: /data/: No such file or directory
ftp> 

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Drew
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

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