[VANILLA-L:1517] Stats as HTML

[James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>]

Bob Tanner wrote:
> First, I'd like to see the stats in a "real" database, [...]

But I don't like a dependency on database products for something that is
really just a single table.

> But a good second, could be simple comma-seperated-values and a set of
> small tools to convert from csv to html. Or cvs2msql, etc.

But we want it super fast, because stats are written on every death, so
fixed length fields are good, but if we have enough disk space then
storing it in ASCII probably wouldn't hurt.  It's in binary now for
reasons of efficiency.

> A good third would be tools to pull the stuff out of the old format
> into cvs or html.

Now _that_'s easy.

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