zcashd/contrib/README.md

*** Warning: This document has not been updated for Zcash and may be inaccurate. ***

Wallet Tools
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### [BitRPC](/contrib/bitrpc) ###
Allows for sending of all standard Bitcoin commands via RPC rather than as command line args.

Repository Tools
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### [Developer tools](/contrib/devtools) ###
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Contains the script `github-merge.sh` for merging github pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.

### [Linearize](/contrib/linearize) ###
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.

### [Qos](/contrib/qos) ###

A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.

### [Seeds](/contrib/seeds) ###
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.

Build Tools and Keys
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### [Debian](/contrib/debian) ###
Contains files used to package bitcoind/bitcoin-qt
for Debian-based Linux systems. If you compile bitcoind/bitcoin-qt yourself, there are some useful files here.

### [Gitian-descriptors](/contrib/gitian-descriptors) ###
Gavin's notes on getting gitian builds up and running using KVM.

### [Gitian-downloader](/contrib/gitian-downloader)
Various PGP files of core developers. 

Test and Verify Tools 
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### [TestGen](/contrib/testgen) ###
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.