[LBBS-6] Add menu system scripting engine

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Add a scripting engine (akin to dialplan in Asterisk) that can be used in menus.conf to allow the sysop to customize menu operation to a far greater extent than is currently possible. For example, things like:

• adding a welcome message, prior to the main menu

A number of provided "primitives", will need to be provided, including (but not limited to):

• Sleep for x ms
• Set foreground/background colors
• Set if input is echoed or not
• Send bell/alert
• Set emulated terminal speed
• Execute external program, e.g. for ZMODEM download
• Conditional logic
• More ANSI support at login, e.g. https://youtu.be/n0OwGSX2IiQ?t=1099
  • e.g. https://bbs.bottomlessabyss.net/
  • ability to restrict ANSI art to a minimum bps / emulated bps, since it can take FOREVER at slow speeds (300/1200)
• Anything else that can be done in other BBS packages but isn't currently doable in LBBS

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