column format strings

[Ed Beroset <beroset () mindspring com>]

While attempting to answer a question[1] on ask.wireshark.org, I looked for the documentation for column format codes 
that may be used to customize tshark's output.  After a few minutes of searching, it seemed to me that the only place 
they're documented was in the source code, which seems rather user-unfriendly.  To fix this without adding a 
maintenance burden, I decided to add a "-G column-formats" option to tshark which prints all the format strings and 
descriptions using mostly existing code.  I also added a description of that glossary to the tshark.pod file.  Also, 
while I was in there, I noticed that several of the already existing glossary options (ftypes, heuristic-decodes and 
plugins) were missing from the documentation, so I've added those, too.  Bug is filed with patch.[2]


[1] 
http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/26001/show-untranslated-and-translated-mac-addresses-in-different-columns-at-the-time
[2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9272
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