Hopkins wrote:
> Test equ 5
>
> MPSIM shows the constant Test at address 5.

It only knows that TEST = 5.  It is apparently assuming that this is an
address, so it shows you the contents of 5 also.

> How do you get MPLAB to assign a constant a value that can be used in
> calculations?

You did.  You can say MOVLW TEST, for example.


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