Thanks everyone for your replies.  Dwayne Reid actually provided the exact
thing i was after:

you can use the #v directive:

Fosc            EQU .4000000
Baud            EQU (Fosc / (.16 * .9600) -1)

     messg  Baud rate setting is: #v(Baud)

which assembles cleanly and gives the following message:

Message[301] C:\PIC\JTABLE.ASM 23 : MESSAGE: (Baud rate is: 25)

So it CAN be done!

Kresho.

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