We've dropped the attached workaround into "/usr/local/bin/tset" here at elsie.
--ado
#! /bin/sh
: This shell script just gets around the bug of tset
: not redoing rows and cols if they are not zero and you,
: for example, switch from 80-column mode to 132-column mode.
stty rows 0 cols 0 >&2
exec /usr/ucb/tset ${1+"$@"}