Yes, I have a talent for writing confusing emails... ;-)  

My point was that the files downloaded from -

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J902/Zips >> Linux

are all dated 2020 August 14 - I just checked and this is still true as I write 
this note. That is to say, the link above gives the user beta-e, not beta-f.

- joey

> On 2020Sep 25, at 06:59, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This bug was a blunder introduced during a tidying-up operation and I have 
> fixed it for the next beta.
> 
> It had nothing to do with AVX.  The first version below says 9.01: is there 
> something wrong with the beta distribution?
> 
> Henry Rich
> 
> On 9/25/2020 1:26 AM, Joey K Tuttle wrote:
>> I find the failure in Darwin as well, causing a segmentation fault, earlier 
>> releases are OK.
>> 
>> When I put the new jengine in a Darwin non-avx machine, I get
>> 
>>    JVERSION
>> Engine: j901/j64/darwin
>> Release-f: commercial/2020-06-11T16:03:29
>> Library: 9.01.24
>> Platform: Darwin 64
>> Installer: J901 install
>> InstallPath: /applications/j901
>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>>      (1 1 $ < 0) {:: 'a';'c'
>> a
>>      (3 1 $ <0){:: 'a';'b';'c'
>> aaa
>>    So my speculation is that the segmentation fault is somewhere in the avx 
>> code.
>> 
>> I have a lame Linux system (non-avx) and I say lame because I have to 
>> install from the tar.gz file rather than get the new version through pacman. 
>> There the expressions work ok, but when I run the newly installed jbeta, I 
>> get -
>> 
>>    JVERSION
>> Engine: j902/j64/linux
>> Beta-e: commercial/2020-08-14T10:06:25
>> Library: 9.02.05
>> Platform: Linux 64
>> Installer: J902 install
>> InstallPath: /usr/local/lib/j902
>> 
>> That seems to indicate that Beta-f didn't make it into the distribution file.
>> 
>> http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j902/install/j902_linux64.tar.gz
>> 
>> They also work fine in Beta-e on a RaspberryPi but the current   jengine 
>> available there is beta-d.
>> 
>> Thanks - joey
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2020Sep 24, at 20:39, 'robert therriault' via Beta <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Originally I posted this in error on the programming forum
>>> 
>>> Henry, thanks for all the work that you put into improving the language 
>>> through subsequent betas.
>>> 
>>> I am away from my production computer, which has the different beta 
>>> versions for j902, but I have found a difference between J901 and J902-f
>>> 
>>>   JVERSION
>>> Engine: j901/j64avx2/darwin
>>> Beta-m: commercial/2019-10-02T11:28:59
>>> Library: 9.01.24
>>> Qt IDE: 1.8.4/5.12.5
>>> Platform: Darwin 64
>>> Installer: J901 install
>>> InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j901
>>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>>> 
>>>   (1 1 $ < 0) {:: 'a';'c'
>>> a
>>>  (3 1 $ <0){:: 'a';'b';'c'
>>> aaa
>>> 
>>> Either of these lines will crash the entire session of j902-f
>>>   JVERSION
>>> Engine: j902/j64avx2/darwin
>>> Beta-f: commercial/2020-09-24T12:49:44
>>> Library: 9.02.05
>>> Qt IDE: 1.8.7/5.12.7(5.12.7)
>>> Platform: Darwin 64
>>> Installer: J902 install
>>> InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j902
>>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps. I will be back from vacation on Monday, but I can still do 
>>> a little more investigation from my laptop if necessary.
>>> 
>>> Cheers, bob
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