Help sought for a research project

[flopzie]

Okay.. Thanks.

Could you just run me through what each of these parameters does...? (or point me to the relevant documentation.. and I'll attempt to understand it!)

Yes there is an easy way just run the following:
-a 3 -m 0 -w 3 example0.hash ?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a

This should run >10 years on your system.