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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The Flex package contains the flex program
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>
+Flex is a tool for generating programs which regognize patterns in text.
+Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. You set up rules
+what to look for and flex will make a program that looks for those
+patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is much easier to set up
+rules for what to look for than to write the actual program that finds
+the text.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+