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