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