that have standard C mnemonics.

- Use the string literal separator (colon) instead of equals if the string
  value begins or ends in space or contains control characters.

iniGetString, etc. will preserve leading or trailing space characters in
a string specified with a colon key:value separator and enclosed in
double-quotes.
iniGetString, etc. will decode C-escaped string values specified with a
string literal (colon) key:value separator.

New function: iniSetStringLiteral() used to specify that the value shall
be stored in the .ini file using the colon key:value separator, enclosed
in double-quotes, and any special charactors (e.g. quotes, backslashes, etc.)
or control characters must be C-style escaped.

ala Synchronet text.dat) by default and octal format only if
C_UNESCAPE_OCTAL_SUPPORT is defined.
\X## is no longer supported (must use the C-standard \x##
Only 2 hex digits are now supported, longer streams of valid hex digits will
not be parsed as a literal character (unlike the C standard)

Added a configuration setting, startupSubBoardCode, which can be used to specify an internal sub-board code for a sub-board to automatically start in if there are multiple sub-boards configured.  If this is set, SlyVote will not prompt the user for a sub-board on startup and will start in the sub-board specified by this setting.

Version 0.18 beta: Updated the vote option input for traditional mode (when voting from the 'view results' screen) so that it only accepts numbers and a comma for input.  Also, updated the close-poll behavior so that only the user who created the poll can close it (removed the sysop).

Version 1.17 beta 46: When inputting multiple vote options from the user, it now restricts input to just numbers and commas.  Also, updated the close-poll behavior so that only the poll creator can close the poll (removed the sysop).

Version 1.17 beta 45: Made use of the new Msgbase.close_poll() method to close a poll.  Requires the August 19, 2017 or newer build of Synchronet 3.17.

Version 0.27 beta: Made use of the new Msgbase.close_poll() method to close a poll.  Requires the August 19, 2017 or newer build of Synchronet 3.17.

the arguments are: MessageNumber, UserNameOrAlias

The MessageNumber is the message number for the close to be polled.
The UserNameOrAlias should be the currentl authenticated user and must
match the pollster (sender) of the poll for the closure to succeed.

Made a couple of minor updates - Displaying the ESC=Quit text when voting on a poll, and when viwing the status, it now outputs the number of each poll and the total number of polls.

Updated so that the checkmark character is correctly displayed in the item text when an item is selected in multi-select mode (with the spacebar).

stubs (sbj, sbl, etc.) here into this new file and will be including from those scripts.

After closing a poll and then quitting out of viewing results, the number of open polls shown on the screen will be correctly reduced.

Bug fix: When displaying the list of polls to vote on, it now only shows polls that are open.  Also, udpated the main menu to also show how many polls are open (in addition to how many polls there are in the area).

Version 1.17 beta 44: Added support for users to close polls (only if they created the poll or if they're the sysop).  I ended up using the ! key for that, since many other keys were already taken.  Also, renamed "Read Me.txt" and "Revision history.txt" so they don't have spaces in the filenames.

Version 0.25 Beta: Finished the code for closing a poll.  This is done with the C key when viewing poll results.

Made a small code change around where votes are entered in the traditional user interface (when voting from viewing the results).  Also added a condition where sysops are also able to close polls (although that functionality still isn't complete yet).

Updated to support multi-answer polls.  Requires a Synchronet 3.17 build from August 14, 2017 or newer.
Next, I want to add a command to close a poll (would only work for the person who created the poll or the sysop).

or via echocfg) were not automatically slash-terminated. So if the user did not
provide the trailing slash (or backslash on Windows), then the bundles and
packets in an inbox could not be extracted/imported.
Also, fixed the truncation of area descriptions in the badareas.lst file.

Updated to show the number of choices a user can submit for a poll, and restricted the user to choosing only that many. Also, started working on adding an option to let the user close a poll they created (while viewing poll results).  Requires the latest & greatest DDLightbarMenu.js (in exec\load).

Added a property, maxNumSelections, to limit the number of selections a user can make in multi-select mode.  -1 or 0 means no limit.  I still need to work on getting the check mark displayed properly for selected items in multi-select mode..

Version 0.23 Beta: Started working on supporting voting on multi-answer polls.  It appears to be working.  Requires the latest & greatest DDLightbarMenu.js (in sbbs\exec\load).  It could still use a little refinement, such as showing the maximum number of votes (and limiting to that) and showing that the user can use the spacebar to select options in the lightbar menu.

Started working on the ability to select multiple items from the menu (which is done with the spacebar).  Multi-item selection is enabled by setting the multiSelect property to true (which is false by default).  In multi-select mode, the GetVal() function will return an array of selected return values rather than a string.  The display of selected items still needs to be worked on..  Right now it will display a check mark next to selected items after the user scrolls away from the item, and the position of the check mark is currently a little wierd, but multi-select is working.

origin line prefixes (so it'll be more obvious to sysops when their tag/origin
line is too long) and beautified the output a bit.

polls either.
If the 'votes=<val>' argument isn't specified, the votes (max votes per ballot)
value is prompted for. This number must be > 1 for multiple-answer polls.

Fix multi-choice poll import (from QWKnet) bug: MaxVotes was used for polls in
(not "votes) in VOTING.DAT file. Oops.

badip.msg wasn't be sent (display to) the IP-blocked user before disconnecting.
This regression was introduced in rev 1.632 of this file when the temp IP-ban
feature was implemented.

Small optimization in the countPollsInSubBoard and subBoardHasPolls functions - Storing the number of messages (msgbase.total_msgs) in a variable before the loop