Autocad .DLL help!

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I’m running Autocad 2002 (for the last almost three years) and I just started getting a strange error message whenever I use the MTEXT command:

Now my copy of Acad 2002 is a copy from a previous employer so reinstalling is not an option. I know I know, but I’m between jobs and there’s no way I can afford it right now yet I HAVE to have this to work.

My question is, is there a simple dll file I can download to solve this? I can use the program without the stacked fractions but I do like the way they look and would prefer not to go to lined up fractions.

Thanks.

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I think you might be fugged. That’s a Windows Registry entry that’s fubar’ed. It’s not a dynamic-link library, unless it’s this one: C:\WINNT\System32\adresc.dll

I’ve found two instances of a key in my registry with the value “IRichEditSpecialChar”


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{BE6C82A1-BFB2-11cf-A644-00608CF2ECDF}
IRichEditSpecialChar

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{BE6C82A1-BFB2-11cf-A644-00608CF2ECDF}\ProxyStubClsid32
{BE6C82A1-BFB2-11cf-A644-00608CF2ECDF}



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{BE6C82A1-BFB2-11cf-A644-00608CF2ECDF}
IRichEditSpecialChar Proxy/Stub

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{BE6C82A1-BFB2-11cf-A644-00608CF2ECDF}\InProcServer32
C:\WINNT\System32\adresc.dll

For both of these, the second entry, as careful reading will show, is subordinate to the first. That is, they are under the first key in the hierarchy.

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I kinda thought so, Bob. :frowning: I changed my DIMSTYLE to non stacked and while the message still comes up, I can work around it.

Feh. to continue my crappy day, I realized this morning that all the blocks I laboured over are on my old work computer and they are not bloody likely to let me go in and copy them all to disk. Crap thats a lot of work down the tubes.

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Do you think a System Restore to a week or so when this wasn’t a problem might help it?

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Ugh. That sucks about those blocks, Mike.

How 'bout this, tho? Mebbe you can find a freeware .shx font that has fractions in it that can be entered with the leading %% control codes. I’ve modified a couple of my fonts so I can put that overlapping CL symbol in a line of text by typing %%251. Somebody might have done something similar for fractions.

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Whoops. Didn’t see your question there, not that my answer is gonna be of any use anyway . . .

I dunno, it might.