``tset -s'' and ``tset -s vt100'' (for example) both work for me, on a
NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA snapshot.  Which version of NetBSD were you using?

You _might_ be tripping over a shell builtin command or a shell alias; try
typing:

   /usr/bin/tset -s

or

   /usr/bin/tset -s vt100

...and see what you get.  (I.e., force the shell to load & execute the
system tset binary.)


(Other than with scsh, which has a syntax not well suited to interactive
use, ``tset -s'' works with every shell on my system: csh, sh, ksh, plus
the handful of shells (excluding scsh) in pkgsrc/shells.)


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu