Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Help functions nonexistent :-( Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 17:43:39 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:43:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="26134b6393f6e9a05c6a17040530f5e9"; logging-data="13828"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19W3uPaXWgY/3gYsp/Q9N6FSoEjIqi1Y1Y=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:DEZcXvBVk3Cz+v136w9ImcbnwXo= Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:35202 On 10/09/2016 02:13 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote: > On 09/10/2016 in message The Real Bev wrote: > >>Just bought a $75 Kodi device with little keyboard. Nifty thing, but >>absolutely NOT intuitive. Moreover, there's no serious manual for it. The >>best you can do is google searches for approximations of what you think >>might be posted on the web somewhere, and most of that never turns up >>anything useful. Like every other android thing, it seems to be a >>learn-by-doing process -- maybe easier than man pages because you can at >>least SEE everything, but STILL :-( > > That's standard nowadays, OS manuals don't exist. You need to search for > help on whatever version of Android is installed. And which is totally inadequate. 'Help' for apps is worse! -- Cheers, Bev Some people just can't be helped; you take 'em out of the rat race for 5 minutes and they end up missing the rats! --XR650LDave