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32 .Nd be obnoxious about how much mail you have
38 program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously.
44 program first appeared in
50 .An Noah Friedman Aq friedman@splode.com
52 This version was written by
54 .Aq mycroft@NetBSD.org .
56 The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried.
62 instead, though these are not shell builtins.