Hey BEAST!
I made a bunch of udpates to the IOStream APIs and placed them in this branch on github:
http://github.com/eengbrec/Scalax.IO/tree/scala-2.8.0-improvements
I basically removed all existing code and started copy-pasting from what was there. I'd like to get a good testing suite going. The really good news (IMHO) is that named-arguments are in and working. I can't wait to see how handy they become! The bad news is that only the maven build is working for the project, so you'll have to revert to running mvn clean test. Also I haven't added any of the tests back in yet.
Please let me know what you think of the 2.8.0 APIs. I'm trying to keep it simple and elegant (if possible!) I'm also making use of the new Traversable trait (bases all behavior on foreach) instead of Seq for the "ManagedCollections"
-Josh