--- a/AbstractOperatingSystem.st	Thu May 27 21:06:22 1999 +0200
+++ b/AbstractOperatingSystem.st	Fri May 28 11:57:52 1999 +0200
@@ -1939,6 +1939,15 @@
     self subclassResponsibility
 !
 
+mimeTypeForSuffix:aFileSuffix
+    "given a file suffix, return a corresponding mimeType.
+     This is placed here, to allow for OS-specific configuration
+     files and/or the win32 registry to be consultet.
+     Returns nil if no mimeType for the given suffix is known."
+
+    ^ nil
+!
+
 parentDirectoryName
     "return the name used to refer to parent directories.
      In MSDOS, Unix and other systems this is '..', but maybe different
@@ -3814,6 +3823,6 @@
 !AbstractOperatingSystem class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/AbstractOperatingSystem.st,v 1.22 1999-05-21 22:45:11 cg Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/AbstractOperatingSystem.st,v 1.23 1999-05-28 09:57:52 cg Exp $'
 ! !
 AbstractOperatingSystem initialize!