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   29: .Dd October 3, 1997
   30: .Dt COUNTMAIL 6
   31: .Os
   32: .Sh NAME
   33: .Nm countmail
   34: .Nd be obnoxious about how much mail you have
   35: .Sh SYNOPSIS
   36: .Nm
   37: .Sh DESCRIPTION
   38: The
   39: .Nm
   40: program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously.
   41: .Sh HISTORY
   42: The
   43: .Nm
   44: program first appeared in
   45: .Nx 1.3 .
   46: .Nm
   47: was first written by
   48: .An Noah Friedman Aq friedman@splode.com
   49: in 1993.
   50: This version was written by Charles M. Hannum
   51: .Aq mycroft@NetBSD.org .
   52: .Sh CAVEATS
   53: The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried.
   54: .Nm
   55: uses
   56: .Xr from 1
   57: and
   58: .Xr wc 1
   59: instead, though these are not shell builtins.
   60: .Sh SEE ALSO
   61: .Xr from 1