1.\" $NetBSD: countmail.6,v 1.12 2008/05/29 14:51:25 mrg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Matthew R. Green 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 17.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 18.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 19.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 20.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 21.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED 22.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, 23.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.Dd October 3, 1997 28.Dt COUNTMAIL 6 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm countmail 32.Nd be obnoxious about how much mail you have 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36The 37.Nm 38program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously. 39.Sh SEE ALSO 40.Xr from 1 41.Sh HISTORY 42The 43.Nm 44program first appeared in 45.Nx 1.3 . 46.Sh AUTHORS 47.An -nosplit 48.Nm 49was first written by 50.An Noah Friedman Aq friedman@splode.com 51in 1993. 52This version was written by 53.An Charles M. Hannum 54.Aq mycroft@NetBSD.org . 55.Sh CAVEATS 56The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried. 57.Nm 58uses 59.Xr from 1 60and 61.Xr wc 1 62instead, though these are not shell builtins. 63