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

I find this problem a lot with lots of different programs.  I don't
use sqlplus, but I'd try this:

export TERM=xterm

This fixes color problems, etc..  If you don't use bash, then you'll
have to do something else of course :)  But set your term type
(environment variable) to xterm, and it should fix all your
problems.  If not try TERM=ansi

Hope this helps,
-Craig