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It is a simple appearing process that is in reality very complex I don't know if that makes it clearer or muddier really. RTF with it's roots in the early days of word processing as a cross platform document format for Microsoft Word includes both text and images inside the "document" file. HTML "marks up" text and imports images on the fly from their source files. The common expectation of folks is to get images and text and this generally in real terms means RTF as the intermediary format but web tools like mail and browsers tend to use HTML as that is native to their display formats and from this comes the difference. Two of the common formats that as a user we rarely hear about are RTF (Rich Text) and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) At a fairly low level most applications pass information to the clipboard in a number of formats, and the pasting application pick a format it understands. Then applications can define extensions to those pre defined things. The clipboard as shipped with windows really only supports text and images although there are multiple version of those things. The major issue is how windows clipboard works. But It doesn't really matter now, I have my backup facility. I have all I need thank you, but it is still curious that you can copy and paste a single image from Thunderbird to Word, but not a group of images. I didn't know that you could drag and drop e-mails to a non e-mail directory.
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