1.\" $NetBSD: countmail.6,v 1.8 2002/09/26 18:32:00 wiz 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.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 15.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 19.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 20.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 21.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 22.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 23.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED 24.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, 25.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 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 38The 39.Nm 40program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously. 41.Sh HISTORY 42The 43.Nm 44first appeared in 45.Nx 1.3 . 46.Nm 47was first written by 48.An Noah Friedman Aq friedman@splode.com 49in 1993. 50This version was written by Charles M. Hannum 51.Aq mycroft@netbsd.org . 52.Sh CAVEATS 53The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried. 54.Nm 55uses 56.Xr from 1 57and 58.Xr wc 1 59instead, though these are not shell builtins. 60.Sh SEE ALSO 61.Xr from 1 62