Use curses to support non-vt100 terminals? (request)

I have an IBM 3161 ASCII terminal. The point of using curses is to make your programs terminal-independent. I think it'd be a very good idea to add it (though I understand this may push the 'lines of code' up a lot).


If your intention is portability, curses is the way to go. VT100 codes are _not_ universal, although they are common. The 3161 doesn't emulate a VT100 either; it emulates the ADDS Viewpoint, ADM-3A, ADM-5, Hazeltine 1500, IBM 3101, and TeleVideo 910. None of those are VT100 compatible.

Alternately, a method to manually supply alternate escape codes would be good.