 The currently used portion of the buffer can be 
 dropped if required via dropBuf().

 This class could be extended to keep the buffered input
 data stream in a local file cache in the future. This
 would involved checking for write capabilities and the
 definition [probably in environment] for where to write
 the files too.


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