diff --git a/basis/ftp/server/server.factor b/basis/ftp/server/server.factor
index acd106d2de..9458d5d3a6 100644
--- a/basis/ftp/server/server.factor
+++ b/basis/ftp/server/server.factor
@@ -26,14 +26,10 @@ TUPLE: ftp-command raw tokenized ;
         swap tokenize >>tokenized ;
 
 TUPLE: ftp-get path ;
-: <ftp-get> ( path -- obj )
-    ftp-get new
-        swap >>path ;
+C: <ftp-get> ftp-get
 
 TUPLE: ftp-put path ;
-: <ftp-put> ( path -- obj )
-    ftp-put new
-        swap >>path ;
+C: <ftp-put> ftp-put
 
 TUPLE: ftp-list ;
 C: <ftp-list> ftp-list
@@ -81,6 +77,7 @@ C: <ftp-disconnect> ftp-disconnect
     } 1&& ;
 
 : ftp-error ( string -- ) 500 server-response ;
+
 : ftp-unimplemented ( string -- ) 502 server-response ;
 
 : send-banner ( -- )
@@ -370,4 +367,3 @@ M: ftp-server handle-client* ( server -- )
 
 ! sudo tcpdump -i en1 -A -s 10000  tcp port 21
 ! [2010-09-04T22:07:58-05:00] DEBUG server-response: 500:Unrecognized command: EPRT |2|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|59359|
-