Okay, the story is age old, and you've probably heard it before.

Somebody screwed up, and the correct protection bits aren't
present on the Workbench 3.1 distribution. Most trouble is
probably caused by the lack of pure-bits.

There exists a previous effort, but it's only good for
restoring pure-bits. This little AmigaDOS-script restores
not only the pure-bits, but sets ALL the protection bits
the way they should be!

BEFORE GETTING STARTED, REMEMBER THIS: ALWAYS WORK ON
BACKUP COPIES, NEVER ON YOUR ORIGINAL WORKBENCH DISKS!

Got the backup copies ready? Good. You may go to a shell prompt
now and type "execute FixWB31.bat". You'll be requested to insert
the following disks, in this order (and by these volume-names):

                Workbench3.1:
                Extras3.1:
                Fonts3.1:
                Install3.1:
                Locale3.1:
                Storage3.1:

Both the FONTS and LOCALE disks will be requested by a different
name, in order to prevent unwanted changes to your hard drive's
contents. If you're using a multi-function commodity such as
MultiCX with the ASSIGNWEDGE feature (MCP and MagicCX should
have it too), you can use it to assign Fonts3.1: and Locale3.1:
to df0: (or whatever drive you are using) when requested.

Otherwise, you'll have to use Workbench's "Execute Command..."
function (or alternatively, another shell) to assign manually,
when requested, like this:

        Execute a File====================================|#=
        |                                                   |
        |       Enter Command and its Arguments:            |
        |         ------------------------------------------|
        |Command: | assign Fonts3.1: df0:                  ||
        |         ------------------------------------------|
        |------                                     --------|
        || Ok |                                     |Cancel||
        -----------------------------------------------------

Advanced users, who don't wish to re-install Workbench, may
easily modify the script to do changes on their system
partition instead of Workbench disks simply by using
search & replace.

Even though many things can't go wrong in a simple AmigaDOS-
script, standard disclaimer applies: it's your own risk, and
the author of the script (and this readme) can't be held liable
for anything.

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
[generic]                 3374   26036  13.0% -lh5- f06f Jul 21  1999 FixWB31.bat
[generic]                 1188    2579  46.1% -lh5- 4459 Jul 21  1999 FixWB31.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
 Total         2 files    4562   28615  15.9%            Jul 23  1999