I think that doing the mklinux thing first is a very good idea.  Use
4.6.1.  Your first  puzzle will be to port the lwp package where a few
lines of assembly are needed (this is a test of social engineering
mostly). 

Some graduate students in Argentina are also working on the NFS
translator.


- Peter -


On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, anthonyj wrote:

> Yes,
> 
> I'd be quite interested in doing this. MkLinux has been flaky for me so 
> far and I have been working thru some issues (mostly networking things) 
> but I am certainly going to try to get Coda going. Do you suggest a 
> version earlier than 4.6.1? I have not been following that discussion 
> entirely...
> 
> I am also anxious to work on the NFS port. Have you run into any other 
> interested parties for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> >
> >Anthony,
> >
> >Are you going to work on the MkLinux port for Coda?  That should be
> >quite doable and very interesting.
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >anthonyj writes:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > I have just gotten Mklinux setup on my Mac and am going to try to get it 
> > > to compile on this machine. I have also been talking with Peter about 
> > > doing an NFS to Coda 'port' (?) although I think the work has stopped on 
> > > the MacNFS client (the GNU version anyway, I don't know of any commercial 
> > > clients...) so that might not be too helpful.
> > > 
> > > I asked Peter about working on a Coda client for the Mac at Linux Expo 
> > > and am still willing to work on it if others are interested in helping. I 
> > > know it's probably a higher priority for the Coda project to get 
> > > NFS->Coda to work because that would make Coda available to many people.
> > > 
> > > BTW, Peter I'm not dead or anything, I am trying to get through a 
> > > database project/upgrade that is causing a serious drain on my time. I 
> > > have read through the Venus paper and understand most of it. Hopefully I 
> > > will be able to get started en masse in a week or two.
> > > 
> > > Anthony
> > > 
>