Yes, you can specify the character position to place the curser, then just write
the characters from there.

-Adam

Hardware Engineering wrote:
>
> I'm looking at using an '871 to interface with a Scott Edwards serial LCD, and
> wonder (after looking at some of the code), can you write to just a certain
> part of the LCD line by simply pointing to the beginning address for the
> location in display memory?
>
> ie, I want the display to show
>
> Time Left xx:xx
>
> and only update the xx:xx values
>
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