Maybe I am confused.  I don't know.  But this seems like an amxmodx question
not a valve question.

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chorizo Omelet
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:17 AM
> To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
> Subject: [hlds] WinCSX.exe stats rank ordering
>
> Question:  I am looking for the calculation used by WinCSX.exe to
> establish its "rank" order for each entry in the csstats.dat file.
>
> My csstats.dat file was damaged recently, forcing me to
> restore an older
> file.  Even though only a few days worth of stats changes were lost,
> data loss is data loss...  This got me thinking about the entire stats
> process and what I could do to better protect this data the next time
> the server crashes in a way which leaves the csstats file damaged.  To
> that end, I wrote a validation program and I noticed the
> default record
> ordering in the physical file is not the same as the "rank" ordering
> displayed by WinCSX.exe.  This makes sense as I imagine the
> overhead to
> constantly (physically) reorder the csstats.dat file is not
> worth it to
> the server.  If I was the server I would only ever physically reorder
> the file on startup, but I digress...  So, there must be some
> calculated
> value which represents the "rank" value.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chorizo Omelet
>
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