A metafile that you have created or loaded can be made available to other applications at the same workstation by placing the handle to the metafile in the system clipboard. When a resource is passed to the clipboard, it becomes the property of the system, and is not deleted when the owning application ends. Any application that can access the clipboard can retrieve the handle to the metafile. Using the handle to the metafile, the application should copy the metafile by calling GpiCopyMetaFile before closing the clipboard. The application can then perform any metafile operation on the metafile.