FABS - Qbasic

[G43]

I believe it is open for input. I can open the database in notepad but i have jibberish in the front of the file and some fields do not display as anything coherent, i figure partly due to difference in variable types in the program. Should the field sizes be fixed length? they seem to vary in different areas of the database. There is a key file for each database, not sure how that translates. One question i have is how to link fabs to the compiler as when i try to compile source i get illegal call error from qbasic. I apologize in advance, i am but a novice programmer with limited experience in college with basic, qbasic, visual basic, and c++. I would like to understand the commands and options of using it within qbasic. Do you know of any manual or such for the fabs?

Thanks again,
Garrett