scadline.shx is a normal text font file, not a shape file.

You first have to see if a STYLE definition exists that uses this font.

Seeing as you have purged the drawing, it would appear that there is some text or dimension style or a complex linetype that is in use that uses the STYLE.

You should be able to see which STYLE uses it. Try and redefine that STYLE to use a font you do have (it must have an icon next to it in the font list).

That does depend on whether they are entitled to re-distribute the fonts in the first place :-)

yes, I understand, but this file is a conglomeration. two outside engineers involved. politics.

besides, the operators involved probably do not know WHEN they invoke the nastiness I am having trouble removing.

THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THIS HAS BITTEN ME BEFORE - I KNOW I CAN IGNORE IT, BUT I WOULD REALLY RATHER UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING DONE TO ME.

knowledge is power.

when autocad loads she does not find scaline, and reassigns it to something, effectively covering her tracks.

I did stuff like

(setq them (ssget "X" '( (7 . "ADCFIXED"))) count (sslength them) )

and targeted text entities which I know came in from "outside". modified some of them, deleted others, purged. tried other likely suspects with the same procedures.....

can't get good old sssget to get a handle on the scaline entites directly, and I am pole axed.

surely somebody here is better than me.....