Date:        Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:27:26 +0100
    From:        Jukka Salmi <jukka-netbsd@2003.salmi.ch>
    Message-ID:  <20031103182726.GA285@haustier.salmi.ch>

  | Try IFS=`echo;echo`. And don't ask why ;-)

Come on people, suggest the correct way, there's no need to run
commands (even built-in commands) to produce a constant string.

Just

IFS='
'

is all that is needed.   (Note those are apostrophes, not back-ticks,
and there's nothing at all, not even a space, after the ' on the first
line).

kre

ps: it is the Bourne shell (or a close facsimile thereto).