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  1. <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
  2. <para><command>bison</command> generates, from a series of rules, a program
  3. for analyzing the structure of text files. Bison is a replacement for yacc
  4. (Yet Another Compiler Compiler).</para>
  5. <para><command>yacc</command> is a wrapper for bison, meant for programs
  6. that still call yacc instead of bison. It calls bison with the -y option.</para>
  7. <para><command>liby.a</command> is the Yacc library containing
  8. implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions. This library
  9. is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it.</para>
  10. </sect2>