Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Oracle termtype for Mac OS X terminal window

O'Reilly 's Mac Dev Center or whatever it is called might be
helpful:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/

Specifically, there is a terminal tutorial.  Its geared towards non-
Unix people, but there might be some information about setting
keys up or whatever:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/
terminal_one.html

Have you tried messing with Terminal > preferences >
emulation?