In one of the games I'm running, I'm creating a reference thread that has a lot of information crammed into it. After the intro, each post has everything about a specific topic; the next post after that has all the details about the next topic, and so on.

I would like to change the initial post so it works sort of like a hyperlinked table of contents. Each subject is listed, and I would like to make each of these a link to that specific post in that thread.

Now, I know I can create a link to a thread by posting something like:
http://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=XXXXX&ti=X
where 'gi' is the game's ID number, and 'ti' is the thread number.

Is there something I can add to the end of this that will make the link jump to a specific post within that thread?

You can add #PostNumber to the end of the URL... but you have to keep in mind if you get over one page full of posts in the reference thread, that the page it is on may change, and that will throw your link off.

An example follows:
link to a message in this forum

Sorry?

Let's say I follow your example and make a link with this:
http://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=XXXXX&ti=X#24

Wouldn't that lead to post #24, regardless of which page it's on?

No, it wouldn't.  See this thread for why: link to a message in another game

In order to make it work in a thread with multiple pages, you need to use the "All" link at the top of the thread to display the whole thread, then make a link to that, adding the message number to the end.

So more like this:

http://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=XXX&ti=166&date=1393248923&msgpage=&show=all#24

Okay, now I get it.

What I'm looking for is this, then:
http://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=XXXXX&ti=X&show=all#24

Thanks!

Wow, I'd wondered how to do this early on before I started looking in these threads. This is really helpful (and should be added to the help page).

In reply to CamelCase (msg # 6):

+1

hey didn't know had to "&show=all" before the #