If you experience an issue on your network, and use a file intensive program such as AutoMate (and many databasing programs), a network issue will most often show itself more in the file intensive program than one which works with one file at a time, programs such as Word or Excel.

AutoMate itself is extremely stable, and, for the last I don't know how many years, I have not seen a networking issue that could even begin to be thought of as being a problem within AutoMate and/or Clarion 3, the programming language AutoMate is written in.

I could even go as far to say the same thing about AutoMate running on a stand-alone machine (Not networked), but it is human nature to doubt, even if logic applied to analysis of the issue spells out "point blank" otherwise.

I am often in the position of having to find and resolve an issue that magically begins to happen and which, for some reason, is seen to be program related.

Apply simple logic. AutoMate has been running free of error for days, months or years.
So what's changed to cause this?
Pretty much 100% of the time, especially in recent times, although something may show itself in AutoMate by way on an error, it is not cause by the program self destructing.

There is so much that can go wonky. Check the article at http://www.clarionmag.com/cmag/v12/v12n02network.html .