Previously, there was no good way for the caller to determine if the\
user opted (when prompted) to actually log-off or not.

It's SCAN_CONT (for continuous). <sigh>

Leave SCAN_CONST alias for backwards-compatibility, but deprecated.

No change in behavior.
Eventually would like to get rid of all the CRLF (and CLS) macro usage.

That's all these macros were doing anyway, so no change.

Does exactly the same thing, no change in behavior and unlikely there's any change in performance.

But... as rightful member of sbbs_t, thus useful from other scopes.

Should get rid of all use of SYNC/ASYNC now then.

Before now, if the sysop enabled login-by-user-number and the specified login
ID *started* with a decimal digit, it'd be treated as a user number and
converted to a 32-bit integer. This could result in weird stuff, like this
error I got today:
SMTP ... !ERROR -2 getting data on user (7000401005.gc7gg@synchro.net)

7,000,401,005 is clearly greater than the number of users in my user base
on Vert, but since 7B is > 2.1B (0x7fffffff), the number would be parsed as
a *negative* integer value and thus less than the total number of users in my
userbase.

An obvious solution would be to just turn of login-by-user-number, and for
most systems, I suggest doing that (a system is less secure with it enabled).

However, I want to leave the option for sysops (at least for now) and don't
want this weird behavior so, a login by user number now requires that the
entire login ID is just decimal numbers, nothing else, and the number is
parsed as an unsigned integer. So yes, roll-over can happen for very high
numbers (>4.2B), but in no instance will the number be parsed as negative and
thus lead to an invalid user record look-up attempt.

and suggestions how to achieve what the reader/sysop is wanting.

Previously, in order to just specify the terminal-type string, the sysop
would also have to pass new values for the tg-mode, client-name and
server-name, which was not very friendly. We still support the old syntax
where order of arguments matters, but also a new better syntax for options
(which may now come before or after the required address[:port] argument):

-c <client-name> (default: user alias)
-s <server-name> (default: user real name)
-t <terminal-type> (e.g. "xtrn=doorcode" to auto-exec door on server)
-T <connect-timeout-seconds> (default: 10 seconds)
-m <telnet-gateway-mode> (Number or TG_* vars OR'd together, default: 0)
-p send current user alias and password as server and client-name values
-q don't display banner or pause prompt displayed (quiet)
-P don't pause for user key-press
-C don't clear screen after successful session

For arguments that take a value (e.g. -c, -s, -t, -T, -m), the value may
immediately follow the option letter (e.g. "-cMyName") or be specified
in the following argument (e.g. "-c MyName"). Multiple options cannot be
stuck together in the same option (e.g. use '-C -P' instead of '-CP').

If the RLogin server is a Synchronet BBS, you probably want to specify the
'-p' option which will send the current user's alias and password in the
RLogin connection parameters that Synchronet expects them.

The sysop now has better control over the output (banner, screen-clearing)
and the pause prompt that was previously hard-coded.

Previously, there was no real way to tell if the call to telnet_gate() or rlogin_gate() was successful (e.g. to display or an error message to the user), though there were error/warning messages logged for the sysop. Equivalent JS bbs object methods now return Boolean too.

Include ":port" part of address argument to bbs.[telnet|rlogin]_gate methods in JSDOCS.

Removed a bunch of extraneous (copy-pasted?) JS_SET_RVAL() calls from js_bbs.cpp. This just makes the code a little easier to grok.

DDMsgReader: Fixes for time zone alignment and key help for the message list. Should fix #531

Closes #531

See merge request !265

1) In the BBS list, show flow control, not TCP port
2) Properly ignore DCD

Also added 2 new menu options:
R - re-load msg scan config & pointers
W - save msg scan config & pointers

Leaving the menu file named "maincfg.msg" even though that's a pretty
badly named file - should rename that file at some point, but keep 8.3
format for DOS (e.g. TheDraw, AcidDraw) compatibility.
mscancfg.msg maybe? Ah, the fun of abbreviating things to 8 chars again.

These methods aren't normally needed (msg scan config/ptrs are
automatically loaded upon logon and saved upon logoff), but for users
(e.g. sysops) that can be logged-in concurrently or experimenting with
scans, these methods can be useful and I plan to expose in a loadable
module next.

Clarify the JS bbs.reinit_msg_ptrs() method description a bit.

If all descriptions start a fixed offset and the default parsing
logic (regex) isn't working for the sysop, they can specify the exact
error offset to use for the beginning of each file's description. This
offset is only used for the initial line of the description, not the
continuation lines, but perhaps that could be done if needed.

This is an attempt to address issue #530

I first attempted to use "Lookbehind Assertions" in the regex, but
didn't have any success and decided the brute force method that the
old addfiles utility used might be as simpler solution and provide an
effective work-around for more potential issues with auto-detecting
the beginning of the useful file description.

I also added descriptions of the optional arguments to the help output.

This fixes issue #62

to track the user's preference for reverse-ordering when listing/reading
mail messages. The Un-read mail command still just always uses reverse
ordering.

Right now, the only preference is reverse mail listings (oldest first
or newest first). These settings are only used when reading "your mail",
not any other kind of mail reading.

bbs.read_mail() now returns the user-adjusted loadmail_mode value and
this allows us to determine the user's preferences and save them after
this function/method is called. A readmail_mod can now return a number
(other than 0) and that will be used as the return value of this method.

sbbs_t::readmail() now does the adjustment of the passed lm_mode before
calling any installed readmail_mod, so if for example, deleted message
viewing is enabled by the sysop, those LM_* flags might be set now in
the argument to the readmail_mod, wherase they never would before.

There is not yet any way for the sysop to set a new user's default
mail_settings, they'll just default to 0 for now.

email_sec.js will get some adjustments to use/store the
user.mail_settings next.

Handles integer overflow in the summing of user's credits and remaining daily
free credits.

Caught by a GCC warning.

Upon successful download of a file, recalculate and store the user's download CPS (characters/bytes per second), mainly for subsequent transfer time estimates.

In a minute, this CPS value will be of more use since it'll be reflective of the user's actual download rate (in characters/bytes per second) instead of just some randomly-chosen numeric constant.

DDMsgReader: When forwarding a message, now prepends the subject with "Fwd: " before editing the subject.

See merge request !264

Eric Oulashin authored 2 years ago and Rob Swindell committed 2 years ago

DDMsgReader: When forwarding a message, now prepends the subject with "Fwd: " before editing the subject.

Not sure when this changed, but Thearcadeguy let me know it was a broken link.

Will track the user's last succsesful file-download transfer rate
in characters (bytes) per second.

I'm not calculating or storing this rate yet, but will be soon. This
will make the file download ETAs more realistic and no longer
hard-coded to 3000 cps (which now defaults to 10000 cps, to keep up
with the times).

New field added to user.tab placed adjacent to the other File xfer stats,
which means the leech attempt counter (likely always 0) was moved to the end
of the user record.

If a file gets added to a batch download queue that a user doesn't have download-access to (at the time of batch download), deal with that gracefully and consistently.

start_batch_download():
- Now checks current user access to download the file in both single-file and batch modes
- Now performs credit-check in single-file mode (wasn't doing so previously)
- totalsize of multi-file batch download queue is now calculated again (apparently removed/broken in the new filebase conversion of v3.19), so download ETA should be calculated more accurately (?) again
- Use gettimetodl() to calculate each file's download time for multi-file downloads
- Using new putnode_download() method to write node downloading "action" and ETA-in-aux fields
- The node status wasn't being updated at all before start of download in single-file mode - fixed

create_batchdn_lst() :
- Checks each file still downloadable by the user and if not, removes from the queue (and the generated list file).
- Performs credit check and removes files that exceed available user credit
- returns true only when 1 or more files is added to the batch download list file

addtobatdl()
- Removed redundant 'D' restriction check - this is handled by can_user_download() check already.
- Use the 'reason' out parameter from can_user_download() to determine which error string to display (not always CantDownloadFromDir).

If a user doesn't have access to download a file that's in their batch queue, remove it without saying anything to the user (but log a notice-level message about it) during logon. Files that no longer exist in the filebase are treated the same way.

Eliminate some copy/pasta.

Default to 100000 (cps) if passed a rate_cps argument value of 0.

Migrated from sbbs_t::start_batch_download(), this just calculates the ETA (of transfer completion) and writes to the node's aux field in the proper format.

These text.dat strings require an argument (and normally used with the NOACCESS @-code which uses the noaccess_str and noaccess_val member variables), so not appropriate to use as a reason code here. Use more generic (no argument) text.dat item numbers instead.

DDMsgReader: Don't prepend "Fwd: " to forwarded messages

See merge request !263