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pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Paul G. Nevai)  writes...

|In MultiFinder with plenty of unfragmented RAM available I still
|frequently cannot open DAs because the DAHandler tells me that
|there isn't enough memory and suggests to quit other applications etc.

I got tired of this behavior too.  I also hated having the DAs show up in
a different layer then the application (I HATE WINDOW LAYERS!!!).  So I
took a different route then the one you took and patched MultiFinder to
reverse the sense of the option key.  For my MF, not holding the option
key loads the da into the application, while holding the option key loads
the da into the DAHandler.  A few DAs  don't like this, but most do (Acta
V2.0 is the worst culprit).  The patch is as follows:

    MultiFinder Patch for Option Key

    Look for two occurances of

        0200 0004 57c0 4400    and change to:
        0200 0004 56c0 4400    

Usual caveats about doing this on a backup copy of MultiFinder.  The patch
works with 5.0, 6.0 and 6.0.2, although the code is in different places in
each.

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