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?