      SUBROUTINE MESGBF(LUNIT,MESGTYP)

C$$$  SUBPROGRAM DOCUMENTATION BLOCK
C
C SUBPROGRAM:    MESGBF
C   PRGMMR: WOOLLEN          ORG: NP20       DATE: 1994-01-06
C
C ABSTRACT: THIS SUBROUTINE READS AND EXAMINES SECTION 1 OF MESSAGES
C  IN A BUFR FILE IN SEQUENCE UNTIL IT FINDS THE FIRST MESSAGE THAT
C  IS NOT A BUFR TABLE (DICTIONARY) MESSAGE.  IT THEN RETURNS THE
C  MESSAGE TYPE FOR THIS FIRST NON-DICTIONARY MESSAGE.  THE BUFR FILE
C  SHOULD NOT BE OPEN VIA BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY SUBROUTINE OPENBF PRIOR
C  TO CALLING THIS SUBROUTINE; HOWEVER, THE BUFR FILE MUST BE CONNECTED
C  TO UNIT LUNIT.  THIS SUBROUTINE IS IDENTICAL TO BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY
C  SUBROUTINE MESGBC EXCEPT THAT MESGBC RETURNS THE MESSAGE TYPE FOR
C  THE FIRST NON-DICTIONARY MESSAGE THAT ACTUALLY CONTAINS REPORT DATA
C  (WHEREAS MESGBF WOULD RETURN THE REPORT TYPE OF A DUMMY MESSAGE
C  CONTAINING THE CENTER TIME FOR DUMP FILES), AND MESGBC ALSO
C  INDICATES WHETHER OR NOT THE FIRST REPORT DATA MESSAGE IS BUFR
C  COMPRESSED.  MESGBC ALSO HAS AN OPTION TO OPERATE ON THE CURRENT
C  MESSAGE STORED IN MEMORY, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT MESGBF CANNOT DO.
C
C PROGRAM HISTORY LOG:
C 1994-01-06  J. WOOLLEN -- ORIGINAL AUTHOR
C 2000-09-19  J. WOOLLEN -- MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH INCREASED FROM
C                           10,000 TO 20,000 BYTES
C 2003-11-04  S. BENDER  -- ADDED REMARKS/BUFRLIB ROUTINE
C                           INTERDEPENDENCIES
C 2003-11-04  D. KEYSER  -- UNIFIED/PORTABLE FOR WRF; ADDED
C                           DOCUMENTATION (INCLUDING HISTORY)
C 2004-08-09  J. ATOR    -- MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH INCREASED FROM
C                           20,000 TO 50,000 BYTES
C 2005-11-29  J. ATOR    -- USE IUPBS01 AND RDMSGW
C 2009-03-23  J. ATOR    -- USE IDXMSG
C 2012-09-15  J. WOOLLEN -- MODIFIED FOR C/I/O/BUFR INTERFACE;
C                           USE NEW OPENBF TYPE 'INX' TO OPEN AND CLOSE
C                           THE C FILE WITHOUT CLOSING THE FORTRAN FILE
C 2013-01-25  J. WOOLLEN -- ALWAYS CALL CLOSBF BEFORE EXITING
C
C USAGE:    CALL MESGBF (LUNIT, MESGTYP)
C   INPUT ARGUMENT LIST:
C     LUNIT    - INTEGER: FORTRAN LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER FOR BUFR FILE
C
C   OUTPUT ARGUMENT LIST:
C     MESGTYP  - INTEGER: BUFR MESSAGE TYPE FOR FIRST NON-DICTIONARY
C                MESSAGE
C                      -1 = no messages read or error
C                      11 = if only BUFR table messages in BUFR file
C
C   INPUT FILES:
C     UNIT "LUNIT" - BUFR FILE
C
C REMARKS:
C    THIS ROUTINE CALLS:        CLOSBF   IDXMSG   IUPBS01  OPENBF
C                               RDMSGW
C    THIS ROUTINE IS CALLED BY: None
C                               Normally called only by application
C                               programs.
C
C ATTRIBUTES:
C   LANGUAGE: FORTRAN 77
C   MACHINE:  PORTABLE TO ALL PLATFORMS
C
C$$$

      INCLUDE 'bufrlib.prm'

      DIMENSION    MBAY(MXMSGLD4)

C-----------------------------------------------------------------------
C-----------------------------------------------------------------------

      MESGTYP = -1

C  SINCE OPENBF HAS NOT YET BEEN CALLED, CALL IT 
C  ---------------------------------------------

      CALL OPENBF(LUNIT,'INX',LUNIT)

C  READ PAST ANY BUFR TABLES AND RETURN THE FIRST MESSAGE TYPE FOUND
C  -----------------------------------------------------------------

1     CALL RDMSGW(LUNIT,MBAY,IER)
      IF(IER.EQ.0) THEN
         MESGTYP = IUPBS01(MBAY,'MTYP')
         IF(IDXMSG(MBAY).EQ.1) GOTO 1
      ENDIF

C  CLOSE THE FILE
C  --------------
  
      CALL CLOSBF(LUNIT)

C  EXIT
C  ----

100   RETURN
      END
