From 2929ef583eb6b391b2e48ab70c986c6392e2792d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "R. Timothy Edwards" <tim@opencircuitdesign.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 12:24:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Minor correction to the new "repeat <steps> ... endrepeat"
 function for tech files, as the first implementation was repeating one too
 many times.  Also:  The wrong type was being read for the number of steps,
 although the resulting value was correct.

---
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 utils/tech.c | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 85bfd89e..74d2eea1 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8.3.612
+8.3.613
diff --git a/utils/tech.c b/utils/tech.c
index 70d9a107..ce0dd39c 100644
--- a/utils/tech.c
+++ b/utils/tech.c
@@ -617,15 +617,17 @@ TechLoad(filename, initmask)
 	/* "repeat <number>" reads the lines until "endrepeat" <number> times */
 	else if ((argc == 2) && (!strcmp(argv[0], "repeat")))
 	{
-	    char *endptr;
-	    repeatcount = (off_t)strtol(argv[1], &endptr, 0);
-	    if (*endptr != '\0')
+	
+	    if (!StrIsInt(argv[1]))
 	    {
 		TechError("Error: \"repeat\" with invalid count %s\n", argv[1]);
 		repeatcount = 0;
 	    }
 	    else
+	    {
+		repeatcount = atoi(argv[1]) - 1;
 		repeatpos = ftell(fstack->file);
+	    }
 	    continue;
 	}