stock or 3rd party JS modules. Created entry for the newuser.js module to
begin with.

from ctrl/modsopts.ini and return the key=value pairs as properties of an
object. This allows optional behavior/features in any JS modules (stock
or 3rd party) to be enabled/controlled by editing ctrl/modopts.ini rather than
modifying the JS module/script file itself (for Ree).

Expanded help text for "Loadable Modules".
Expanded help text for internal code prefix/suffixes and some other edits.
Internal-code prefixes are now automaitcally removed from imported file areas,
just like was already done for message areas, by the prep_code() function.
Imported internal-code suffixes are converted to upper case.
Updated indentation and brace style.
Replaced special unprintable help text chars with ASCII equivalents (` and ~).

and fTelnet RIP compatibility.

discontinuity every 7.5 seconds, but at least no crash.

NOTE: It is no longer necessary to run commservice.js in services.ini to use the interbbs features of this game. See /exec/json-service.js if you wish to host your own server

NOTE: it is no longer necessary to run commservice.js in services.ini for the interbbs features of this game to work. See /exec/json-service.js for details if you wish to host a server.

symbols by default.

lost.  Should fix current stupid behaviour.

(Don't get excited guys)

exists:

check_update(file, dir, curr_ver, ...)

Returns the update file contents or null if curr_ver is the latest.