newcbi is a tool to recover CBI corrupted file from the cbf file only
newcbi <source>
where <source> is the cbf file for which you want to rebuild the cbi file.
the new cbi file will be saved with name new.cbi_ in the working directory.
You are supposed to replace the former cbi file and use your database regularly. For safety, make a backup copy of previous cbi file before to overwrite it.
The program assumes the cbf file is a regular one. If the cbf file is corrupted as well, you might obtain a cbi file that allows to you to access only a fraction (or even no game at all) of the total games of the database you are trying to recover.
Author: Francesco Di Tolla fditolla@icqmail.com