Thanks Ralph,
apart from the fact that you have missed to declare ascii VAR BYTE
I fixed it.

That way I can probably get rid of an external EEPROM I was using for message strings.
(presuming there is codespace left to store the strings)
Depending on how you were doing this before, you might see a tremendous savings (especially true if you were using PBP's Table Lookup function).

I certainly can't take all the credit for the idea, since much of this was made possible by looking at other people's code examples. However I do think my approach is possibly unique, since I have been looking, and looking for a solution like this for quite some time now, and never found anything exactly like it. I would be curious to know what other PICs this will work on, since all I use now-a-days are the 18F series, and have no easy way to confirm this.