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<sect2><title>Contents of Bison</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &bison-contversion;.)</para>

<para>Bison is a parser generator, a replacement for yacc. Bison
generates a program that analyzes the structure of a text file.</para>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bison and yacc</para>

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