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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 8 2017, 10:57 AM
usr.bin/resizewin/resizewin.1
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Perhaps "logging" -> "logging in".

"the protocols" -> "protocols".

Also, maybe cross-reference the telnet(1) and ssh(1) manual pages.

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This revision now requires review to proceed.May 9 2017, 6:56 PM
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usr.bin/resizewin/resizewin.1
54 ↗(On Diff #28140)

I don't think the Xr would be useful here; it's about explaining a general rule. Also, specifying eg telnet(1) would be wrong, as it's telnetd(8) that sets the size.

Sounds reasonable to me.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 9 2017, 6:59 PM
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s/from/from a/

I don't understand the use of the colon at all. Running from a startup script has nothing to do with whether it's serial or some other connection type.
So break up this sentence:

This is useful when run from a user's profile (shell startup) scripts.
Querying the window size is required for serial lines, but not when
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s/; this include/, including/

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The connection is that differently from when you run it by hand - because only do that when it's actually needed - when run from shell startup scripts it runs in cases when it's not needed, ie cases other than serial terminal.