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27c87e4b76Smrg.Dd October 3, 1997
28c87e4b76Smrg.Dt COUNTMAIL 6
29d1407362Sgarbled.Os
30c87e4b76Smrg.Sh NAME
31c87e4b76Smrg.Nm countmail
32c87e4b76Smrg.Nd be obnoxious about how much mail you have
33c87e4b76Smrg.Sh SYNOPSIS
34c87e4b76Smrg.Nm
35c87e4b76Smrg.Sh DESCRIPTION
36c87e4b76SmrgThe
37c87e4b76Smrg.Nm
38c87e4b76Smrgprogram counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously.
39d9f5a9dfSwiz.Sh SEE ALSO
40d9f5a9dfSwiz.Xr from 1
41c87e4b76Smrg.Sh HISTORY
42c87e4b76SmrgThe
43c87e4b76Smrg.Nm
44e7d3d513Sjsmprogram first appeared in
45c87e4b76Smrg.Nx 1.3 .
46d9f5a9dfSwiz.Sh AUTHORS
47d9f5a9dfSwiz.An -nosplit
48c87e4b76Smrg.Nm
49c91d8d6bSwizwas first written by
50a5684d07Swiz.An Noah Friedman Aq Mt friedman@splode.com
51c91d8d6bSwizin 1993.
52d9f5a9dfSwizThis version was written by
53d9f5a9dfSwiz.An Charles M. Hannum
540a6047a9Ssalo.Aq mycroft@NetBSD.org .
55c87e4b76Smrg.Sh CAVEATS
56c46ab392SfairThe read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried.
57c87e4b76Smrg.Nm
58c87e4b76Smrguses
59c46ab392Sfair.Xr from 1
60c46ab392Sfairand
61c46ab392Sfair.Xr wc 1
62c46ab392Sfairinstead, though these are not shell builtins.
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