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PCMan X aimed to be an easy-to-use yet full-featured telnet client facilitating BBS browsing.

PCMan X is a newly developed GPL'd version of PCMan, a full-featured famous BBS client formly designed for MS Windows only. It aimed to be an easy-to-use yet full-featured telnet client facilitating BBS browsing with the ability to process double-byte characters. Some handy functions like tabbed browsing, auto-login and a built-in ANSI editor enabling colored text editing are also provided. Developed with wxWidgets, a powerful cross-platform library, currently most UNIX-like systems, MS Windows, and even Mac OS X are already supported by PCMan X.

Features:

1. Multiple platform support:
Microsoft Windows and most UNIX-like systems with Mac OS X included are already supported
2. Multilingual user interface:
Currently English, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese are already supported.
3. User friendly and freely available
4. Source code opened under GNU General Public License
5. Tabbed browsing
6. Built-in ANSI editor enabling easy colored text editing
7. Automatic BBS login
8. Automatic hyperlink detection opening browser window when links are clicked
9. Correct processing of double-byte characters such as Chinese ones
10. Automatic double-byte characters detection when typing
11. Favorites menu bookmarking your favorite BBS sites
12. Built-in list containing address of lots of BBS sites
13. Toolbar icons are customizable