The following headings classify pamela commands lossely according to their function. The same command may appear in more than one class. The help files on individual commands sometimes give links to other closely related commands as well.
| examine | -- | information on frames |
| extract | -- | extraction commands |
| fitting | -- | polynomial etc fits |
| miscellaneous | -- | just what it says |
| scripts | -- | scripts combining pamela commands |
| sky | -- | sky estimation |
| statistics | -- | some useful statistics |
| tilted | -- | commands that cope with tilted/curved spectra |