These basic commands perform a variety of tasks such as making changes to the drawing mode or quitting the program.

The following commands are available:

• begingroup
• clear
• color/colour
• demo
• drawgroup
• flush
• font
• fontlist
• graphicsflush
• help
• history
• listvar
• loaddialog
• move
• quit
• refresh
• remove
• render
• repeat
• restore
• run
• save
• savedialog
• savehist
• set
• snap
• stroke
• update
• version