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C> @file
C> @author WOOLLEN @date 1994-01-06
      
C> GIVEN A CHARACTER STRING CONTAINING SECTION ZERO FROM A
C>   BUFR MESSAGE, THIS FUNCTION DETERMINES A COUNT OF MACHINE WORDS
C>   (I.E. INTEGER ARRAY MEMBERS) THAT WILL HOLD THE ENTIRE MESSAGE.
C>   NOTE THAT THIS COUNT MAY BE GREATER THAN THE MINIMUM NUMBER
C>   OF WORDS REQUIRED TO HOLD THE MESSAGE.
C>
C> PROGRAM HISTORY LOG:
C> 1994-01-06  J. WOOLLEN -- ORIGINAL AUTHOR
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> 2004-08-18  J. ATOR    -- IMPROVED DOCUMENTATION
C> 2005-11-29  J. ATOR    -- USE NMWRD
C>
C> USAGE:    LMSG (SEC0)
C>   INPUT ARGUMENT LIST:
C>     SEC0     - CHARACTER*8: PACKED BUFR MESSAGE SECTION ZERO
C>
C>   OUTPUT ARGUMENT LIST:
C>     LMSG     - INTEGER: BUFR MESSAGE LENGTH (IN MACHINE WORDS)
C>
C> REMARKS:
C>    THIS ROUTINE CALLS:        NMWRD
C>    THIS ROUTINE IS CALLED BY: READERME
C>                               Also called by application programs.
C>
      FUNCTION lmsg(SEC0)
 
 
 
      CHARACTER*8 sec0,csec0
      dimension   msec0(2)
 
      equivalence(msec0,csec0)
 
C-----------------------------------------------------------------------
C-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
      csec0 = sec0
      lmsg = nmwrd(msec0)
 
C  EXIT
C  ----
 
      RETURN
      END