Their inlies the problem, you would need some proprietary info that I can't give to you (comed.shx).
Strange things are afoot...
When I open the drawing, the MTEXT objects are showing the ASCII chars properly, when I DDEDIT them (withoutchanging anything) they revert to raw ASCII. Hmmmm.... I've seen this before.
Will check back tomorrow, have to go fight traffic for an hour or so.
Thanks guys.
Patrick