How do you guys write such portable code?

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From: Edmund Burnette
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 03:41

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Recent comments to the contrary notwithstanding, I have had pretty good
luck taking source right from comp.sources (or wherever), unnsharing it
and compiling it on a couple of systems at work (HP and APOLLO, fyi).
My question is, how do you do it?  Is the author just familiar with all
the sytems the code will be ported to?  Or am I just lucky?  Is there any
written documentation (oh no!) on how to write portable code?  I am not
talking so much about making sure you don't make int/ptr assumptions, etc.,
as all the operating system calls, I suppose.  Thanks.

         -- Edmund
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