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: ...