Interested in a trial of the standalone TPoint software

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I am working on an Az,El telescope application where we already have software to point at and track stars, and we are saving out all the RA,DEC, Az/El encoder positions, and all data that would be needed to fit a telescope pointing model.  I am interested in trying out the TPoint modelling approach by plugging our gathered data into the software and then experimenting with the model it generates. 

I think for this application I would want the standalone version of TPoint, even though it is now unsupported:

Thanks for the reply.  Our telescope is an alt/az mount so sounds like we will be limited to proTPoint.  We would want the Windows version. 

I am interested in a quote for a license of proTPoint.  I also called and was told you would need to know the telescope size for a quote, the telescope is roughly 6 meters tall when pointing upright, let me know if that is enough info on size. 

I would like to know more details about the command-based interface before making a purchase.  Is there a manual or documentation I could look at?  At a minimum it would need to be able to accept intput columns of measured Az,El from encoders, and true/corrected Az,EL star positions,(or RA/DEC) and as output I would need some way to sample the best-fit pointing model to get corrections for any given Az,El.  Let me know if there is any documentation on the features I could look through.