COUNTMAIL
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BSD mandoc
NAME
countmail - be obnoxious about how much mail you haveSYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously.HISTORY
The program first appeared in Nx 1.3 . was first written by Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> in 1993. This version was written by Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@netbsd.org>.CAVEATS
The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried. uses from(1) and wc(1) instead, though these are not shell builtins.SEE ALSO
from(1)
