###########################
   #  function SCP_mthd ... 
   #     - process SCP transfer 
function SCP_mthd 
{ 

   $_dbg_mode

   print "\n\tGreetings from SCP_mthd ($@) "                 >>${MY_LOG} 2>&1 

   #  Scrap it if there aren't sufficient params... 
   if [[ -z ${param_num1} ]] \
         || [[ -z ${param_num2} ]] \
         || [[ -z ${param_num3} ]] \
         || [[ -z ${param_num4} ]] \
         || [[ -z ${param_num5} ]] \
         || [[ -z ${param_num6} ]] 
   then 
      print "\n ===\n\n ${my_name}: $(date) "                |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      print "\n   ${0} called w/ invalid argument(s)... "    |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      print "\n                                         "    |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      print "\n\tCalled as: $0 ${@} \n" \
         "\tParameters: ${param_num1} \n " \
         "\t            [ -------- ]        \n "  \
         "\t            ${param_num3:-"#"}  \n "  \
         "\t            ${param_num4:-"#"}  \n "  \
         "\t            ${param_num5:-"#"}  \n "  \
         "\t            ${param_num6:-"#"}  \n "  \
         |grep -v "#"                                        |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      error_flag='Y' ; logger_heads ;return 2 
   fi 

   #  Hereby reserving the param_num2 column for use as an alternate IdentityFile \
   #     in SSH-based calls (ie, -i "/..." for ssh/scp, -o "/..." for sftp, etc) 
   #     -  placing "not used" string within column in .cfg file will bypass \
   #           usage of alternate file 
   if [[ ! -z ${param_num2} ]] \
      && [[ ${param_num2} != "not_used" ]] 
   then 
      typeset  host_pass=$(print ${param_num2} |tr "_" " " |tr "+" "-" ) 
   fi 
   typeset -l  host_name="${param_num3}" 
   typeset -l  host_user="${param_num4}" 
   typeset     host_dest="${param_num5}" 
   typeset     locl_path="${my_file%/*[pf][rt][nm]}" 
   typeset     locl_file="${my_file#${locl_path}/*}" 

#  print       "host_name=${host_name}" 
#  print       "host_user=${host_user}" 
#  print       "host_pass=${host_pass}" 
#  print       "host_dest=${host_dest}" 
#  print       "locl_path=${locl_path}" 
#  print       "locl_file=${locl_file}" 

   scp ${verbosity} ${host_pass} ${my_file} ${host_user}\@${host_name}\:${host_dest}\/\. \
                                                             >>${MY_LOG} 2>&1 

   rc=${?} 

   if [[ ${rc} != 0 ]] 
   then 
      print "\n ===\n\n ${my_name}: $(date) "                |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      print "\n   ${my_mthd} had an error... "               |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      print "\n                                         "    |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      print "\n\tCalled as: $0 ${@} \n" \
         "\tReturn Code: ${rc} \n " \                        |tee -a ${MY_LOG} 
      error_flag='Y' ; logger_heads ;return 2 
   fi 

   echo "nicely done" 

}