SPI Crystalfontz 632 Problems

They use the unusual format \017 to describe an ASCII value of 17 (decimal).

So you send the cursor home with:

softSPItransfer(0x01);

to move the cursor to column 5 in the second row:

softSPItransfer(0x11);
softSPItransfer(0x04);
softSPItransfer(0x01);

At least that's my interpretation of the datasheet.