What are the files and what do they do?

We have listed every file that QuickLaw needs here except for the MSAccess runtime. If you want to download the entire QuickLaw program you can do so on this site under another link. If you just need a particular file you can get it by clicking on any of the hyperlinks listed here.

QuickLaw uses Microsoft Access version 2.0 MDB files for everything. We split the program MDB out separately from the data MDBs. Listed below are the "program" files that each user needs to have on their PC. Below that are the shared data files that would go on a file server. For a single user setup all of the files go into one folder on the PC.

Program files:

The “front end”, or the files installed on each PC at C:\QuickLaw are:

• QLOpen.MDB – the Open Cases program
• QLClosed.MDB – the closed cases program
• QLFix.MDB – Data repair and compact program
• Setup.MDB – QuickLaw setup program: create form letters, codes, etc.
• Install.MDB - Initial installation setup screens and licensing for each station.
• QLLetter.DOC - Word document of your letterhead. This gets put at the top of the form letters
• QLMerge.DOT - Used with the Phonebook to create merge files for mass mailings
• QLPlead.Doc - The standard pleading document used by QuickLaw
• QLPofS.Doc - The standard proof of service document used by QuickLaw
• QLRpts.MDB - Reports module
• QLRptsCL.MDB - Reports module for closed cases
• QLUsers.MDB - Add user names (login names)  to QuickLaw
• Utility.MDA - MS Access utility file (necessary)
• QuickLaw.BMP - The graphic of Quicklaw that appears as a splash screen when you start the program
• QuickLaw.HLP, Setup.HLP, Users.HLP and FileFix.HLP - The QuickLaw online help files. These include all of the documentation of the program and are quite extensive. You should review these.
• QuickLaw.INI – Settings file (text file) used by QuickLaw so that it could find everything it needed on your system or network. THIS RESIDES IN THE C:\WINDOWS FOLDER.
• MSARN200.EXE - The MS Access runtime program
• All *.DLLs - The DLL files used by the Access runtime program
• All *.LDBs - These are the lock files used by Access.

QLOpen and QLClosed are really the same exact programs but they attach to different data files. When you close a case the data is moved to the closed case database files and you use QLClosed to access them. This allowed the user to do everything with a closed case that they could with an open case, but without having the closed cases clogging up the open database.

Data files:

There are four data files, two for open files, and two for closed. They are:

• QLData.MDB – The data file for OPEN cases
• OLEOpen.MDB – The documents for open cases (all documents are saved in OLE format)
• DBClosed.MDB – The data file for CLOSED cases
• OLEClosd.MDB – the documents for closed cases
• System.MDA - MS Access workgroup security file

Attaching to the data:

The locally run QuickLaw program, QLOpen.MDB, needs to be able to attach to both QLData and OLEOpen to be able to run. The way it does this is by reading the “SharedDataPath” line from the QuickLaw.INI file, which is kept in the C:\QuickLaw folder on the client PC. The SharedDataPath option is found near the bottom of QuickLaw.INI, under Runtime Options.

The QuickLaw.INI file is a standard Access 2.0 INI workgroup file with some QuickLaw entries added to the bottom, under [Runtime Options]. You should be able to find ample documentation on Access’s workgroup INI file at www.Microsoft.com.

The QLClosed.MDB program (front end to Closed Cases) attaches to DBClosed.MDB and OLEClosed.MDB the same way. In fact, QLClosed.MDB is an exact copy of the QLOpen.MDB but with some constant variables changed so that it points to the closed databases. That is why the closed files programs looks and acts to similar to the open cases program.