Thanks Arch
I dumped the .asm file into excel to get line numbers, and line 96 was blank, right after @ device pic16f628a, INTRC_OSC_NOCLKOUT. I'd had an exrta comma in the file - took that out and it compiled OK.
I would never have seen that...
Live and learn - lets see if we can make it work now that I've got a program that compiles...
Thanks again - take care
Alec