OK, as I said in my first message, the Linux system I have access to is "Lame" 
and curl et.al. doesn't work (long story), so I'm happy that it is now at 
beta-e in any case. 

Thanks for the explanation.

> On 2020Sep 25, at 09:49, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We don't update the zip installers as that would be extra work.
> 
> The idea is that once you've installed from a zip install, you can then use
> pacman to update the base library, addons, and the JE binary.
> 
> If you do the zip install, the final steps will update the JE to the latest
> suitable for your platform. The zip install will always have a non-avx
> version that is perhaps back level.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 12:36 PM Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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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