Installing a PC Line PCL3000 Scanner

[Mark Hennessy]

Yes, the forum software is adding a spurious "ftp" to the start of the address. Ho hum...

I think it's actually an FTP site and the forum software is adding a spurious http.

You can see what I intended by clicking "Reply" and looking at my original posting:

Code:

ftp://ftp3.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/0_Old%20Products/1248%20UB/

The solution is to surround it with URL tags:

Code:

[URL]ftp://ftp3.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/0_Old%20Products/1248%20UB/[/URL]

ftp://ftp3.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/...1248%20UB/

Normally it's OK to omit the tags, and the thread display code will parse URLs by surrounding them with HTML "a" tags. But that parsing routine is clearly not working correctly for un-tagged URLs that are FTP rather than HTTP.

When the post is made or previewed, it will get changed to this:

Code:

[URL=ftp://ftp3.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/0_Old%20Products/1248%20UB/]ftp://ftp3.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/0_Old%20Products/1248%20UB/[/URL]

Note the URL= in the opening URL tag. That's what matters. The bit between the square brackets is the displayed text, and can be changed to anything you like:

Code:

[URL=ftp://ftp3.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/0_Old%20Products/1248%20UB/]Download file[/URL]

Download file

The "URL" can be upper or lower case - I used upper case here for clarity...