Matlab Plugin
The Matlab plugin is based on code by Heiko Henkelmann to read binary files from Matlab 4 and 5. It depends only on the numpy module, which should be installed manually.
After installing numpy, you can install the Matlab plugin using easy_install:
$ easy_install dap.plugins.matlab
Simply restart your pydap server after this and it should be able to serve Matlab 4 and 5 files.