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Such a "how-to" is already written.  You can find it on the blinux
archive <http://www.leb.net/blinux>, or on the documents cds that are
part of the Linux distributions.  Look for something like the
dos-windows-to-linux-howto.  It is a text file, readable with wordpad,
even.  It makes analogies between DOS file management commands and
their Linux counterparts, among other things.

Octavian Rasnita writes:
 > As a good idea, I think that a good tutorial should start thinking that a
 > new user of linux used Windows until that moment.
 > I don't know if a person with absolutely no experience in computers, would
 > start learning linux these days.
 > I think the new Linux users know  at least DOS or Windows.
 > 
 > So the tutorial should  say that the ls command is like the dir command for
 > dos, but the differences are: ...