| Command | Description | Section |
| H | short help | 3.3 |
| HELP | long help | 3.3 |
| EX or X | exit CUPLOT at ``Command[ ]?'' prompt | 3.3 |
| ctrl-Z or /X | exit CUPLOT anytime | 3.3 |
| I | initialize all parameters | 3.3 |
| IS | initialize parameters except primary shot | 3.3 |
| NF | set number of frames | 4.2 |
| NC | set number of curves | 4.2 |
| SH S2 S3 ... | set the shot number | 3.1 |
| DE D1 D2 ... | select data element(s) | 3.1, 4.1 |
| DI | digraph (' ' for waveforms) | 3.1 |
| DP | define page parameters | 4.5 |
| DC | define curve parameters | 4.5 |
| DF | define frame parameters | 4.5 |
| G GO | read and plot | 3.1 |
| R | read, no plot | 3.1 |
| P | plot, no read | 3.1 |
| PI | plot isometric | 5.1 |
| PC | plot contour | 5.2 |
| PS | plot selected frames | 4.1 |
| PZ | plot selected 2D frames | 4.1 |
| PSS | plot snap scaler pages | 6.5 |
| PSP | plot snap plots | 6.5 |
| PST | time related snap plots | 6.5 |
| WD | wait for new shot data and do command | 6.2 |
| M | type messages | 3.3 |
| TD | type device list | 3.5 |
| TT | type waveform or snap titles | 3.5 |
| TH | type waveform history | 3.5 |
| TW | type derived waveform names | 3.5 |
| TS | type snap scalers | 3.5 |
| TA | type data average/minimum/maximum | 3.5 |
| TAS | type data average/range/std deviation | 3.5 |
| TOI | type times of interest | 3.5 |
| SM | smooth data | 3.10 |
| CA | calculator | 4.8 |
| SN | snip subset of data | 3.12 |
| RO | rotate 2D data | 5.3 |
| Command | Description | Section | |
| XC YC | set x/y scale factors | 3.7 | |
| XT YT | set x/y plot limits, total | 3.8, 4.1 | |
| XM YM | set x/y plot limits, multiple | 4.1 | |
| XL YL | set x/y label (units) | 3.9 | |
| YD | set y description/title | 3.9 | |
| XV | set x values (start/delta) | 3.6 | |
| XP | set x profile for all elements | 3.6 | |
| YK | set hexadecimal mask on data | 3.7 | |
| XI | set values of z axis for 2D plots | 5.1 | |
| XD | set units of z axis for 2D plots | 5.1 | |
| ZT | set plot limits for z axis for 2D plots | 5.1 | |
| O G | set plot options for grid | 3.11 | |
| O P | set plot options for frame placement | 4.4 | |
| O LOG | set log mode | 3.11 | |
| O L | set line and symbol styles | 4.4 | |
| O 41 | set 4105 vs 4014 mode | 6.3 | |
| O K | set curve colors | 4.4 | |
| O I | set options for isometric plot | 5.1 | |
| O C | set options for contour plot | 5.2 | |
| O LE | set option to create plot legend | 4.4 | |
| O PA | set plot pause flag | 6.2 | |
| O D | set plot density | 6.3 | |
| E | set D2 device as error bars | 4.3 | |
| LL | least squares fit a straight line | 4.7 | |
| LP | least squares fit a polynomial | 4.7 | |
| LE | least squares fit an exponential | 4.7 | |
| LS | least squares fit a sine wave | 4.7 | |
| LH | line fit help | 4.7 | |
| FF | Fast Fourier Transform | 4.9 | |
| FP | FFT plot | 4.9 | |
| FR | window FFT plot on frequency | 4.9 | |
| FY | window FFT plot on amplitude | 4.9 | |
| FU | FFT untransform | 4.9 | |
| FS | store FFT amplitude or frequency | 4.9 | |
| FB | set FFT bandpass | 4.9 | |
| FN | set FFT notch | 4.9 | |
| FO | remove DC offset on untransform | 4.9 | |
| FC | correlate f * g | 4.9 | |
| FV | convolve f / g | 4.9 | |
| F2 | plot amplitute and phase of g | 4.9 | |
| FH | FFT help | 4.9 |
| Command | Description | Section | |
| PF | route plots to file | 6.6 | |
| PT | route plots to terminal | 6.6 | |
| PQ | queue plot file to printer | 6.6 | |
| PV | route plots to VGDS | 6.6 | |
| W | write data to file/tty | 6.1 | |
| WF | write selected data to file/tty | 6.1 | |
| WH | write data to HDF file | 6.1 | |
| U | write data to a Ufile | 6.1 | |
| U2 | write data to a 2D Ufile | 6.1 | |
| DT R | set data type for raw data files | 6.4 | |
| DT U | set disk and directory for Ufiles | 6.4 | |
| DT A | set data type to ASCII | 6.4 |