So Omegix recently asked in the Synchronet Discussion group whether or not
a PETSCII (Commodore) terminal could be used to access his Synchronet BBS.
Now, the answer is "Yes". :-)
The major issues addressed:

- detecting a PETSCII terminal, solved by assigning specific (configurable):
  TCP ports to be used for incoming PETSCII connections, by default:
  port 64 is for 40-column PETSCII and port 128 is for 80-column PETSCII,
  but if the terminal sends a Telnet Window Size reply (e.g. SyncTERM), then
  either size terminal should fine on either port.
  The port numbers are configurable in the [BBS] section of your sbbs.ini
  file using the new keys: PET40Port (default value: 64) and PET80Port
  (default value: 128). Having these keys set doesn't make make the terminal
  server listen on that additional port - you'll need to add more
  IP:port combinations to one of Interfaces values, example:
    TelnetInterface=71.95.196.34,71.95.196.34:64,71.95.196.34:128
  And you don't have to use Telnet for the PETSCII connections - you could use
  RLogin or SSH instead (or in addition).

- support for terminal widths < 80 columns:
  This was achieved through a combination of text.dat changes (numerous),
  new Ctrl-A and @-codes and new optional terminal-width-specific menu files
  (e.g. text/menu/main.40col.asc)
  A side effect of these changes is actually better support for terminals
  *wider* than 80 columns as well!

- support for terminals that don't expand tabs to spaces (e.g. PETSCII):
  The terminal server now handles tab expansion with a run-time settable
  tab-size (default size: 8)

- conditional access based on PETSCII (or small) terminal use (or not):
  + New PETSCII ARS keyword (boolean)
  + New COLS and ROWS ARS keywords (for terminal width and height requirements)
  + New TERM (string) ARS keyword

New @-codes:
  - WORDWRAP, when placed at the top of a file, enables auto-wordwrap for
              lines longer than the terminal width
  - CENTER, the text following before an end of line will be displayed centered
            on the terminal (whatever the width, in columns)
  - CLEAR, like CLS, except it ignores (doesn't display) a CRLF that follows
  - COLS, current number of terminal columns (width)
  - ROWS, current number of terminal rows (height)
  - TERM, the auto-detected or reported terminal type (e.g. ANSI, TTY, etc.)
  - SYSONLY, toggles "echo" (display) off/back-on for non-sysops
            similar to the Ctrl-A( and ) codes, but more convenient to use
            (and PabloDraw won't strip the @-code from the file like it does
             with Ctrl-A codes it doesn't support)

New Ctrl-A codes:
  - \ conditional new-line/continuation when the terminal width is < 80 cols
      prints the new text.dat string LongLineContinuationPrefix

yesno() will now return true if passed a blank string.
noyes() will now return false if passed a blank string.
getstr()'s input length limiting based on terminal width is more broadly
           applied now (not just when using the K_LINE mode flag).

New JS bbs object method: menu_exists(<base_filename>) returns Boolean
New JS console object property: tabstop (Number)
New JS console object methods: getbyte() and putbyte() to recv/send raw byte
    value with (very little) interpretation/intervention by the terminal server
New JS console object method: creturn() - performs a carriage return
    (or equivalent)
New JS (and C) printfile() mode flag: P_TRUNCATE, causes long lines to be
    truncated, rather than displaying causing a line-wrap.

New text.dat strings:
  - NoAccessTerminal (for ARS check failures)
  - LongLineContinuationPrefix (for breaking long lines for 40col terminals)
  - Scanning (replaces a previously hard-coded "Scanning" string)
  - Done (replaces a previusly hard-coded "Done")
  - Scanned  (when finished scannning, clears the progress bar)

(stops parsing/displaying upon Ctrl-Z) - this solves the SAUCE record
issue for sysops (e.g. using PabloDraw).

Also, free() temp variables for RSA keys.

of the passed filei, fixing a long-standing issue with a couple of menu
commands (e.g. "MAININFO") in the WWIV (and possibly other) command shells.
Thank Nelgin. Are we keeping count yet?

- if the sysop had text/menu/<filename>.bak (for example), the optoinal menu
  would attempt to load, resulting in an error ("<filename>.asc not found")
- if the sysop specified menu_file or menu_dir (e.g. via Baja), the existing
  checks for optional menu file existance would not work

prepend the text directory).

inserting (long) typedefs to prevent warnings, but in the case of the JS File()
class, actually supporting file lengths > 32-bit.

for Deuce. :-)

- returns true/false if the user's terminal supports all the passed flags
- returns the supported flags if no flags are passed for comparison
- automatically uses the auto-terminal-type flags if no user is logged-on

* CON_L_ECHOX (no such thing as local echo now)
* node_dollars_per_call (no such thing as a 976/900 billing node)
* node_min_bps (no such thing as bps rate)

including one file in another without auto-prepended CRLF.

P_OPENCLOSE method.

if text/menu/*prot.asc does not exist.

Better file length and read error checking in printfile() and printtail().