MP3 Split Program for Linux?

[Temlakos]

micheal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:46 -0400, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I'm looking for a program that lets me join MP3 files together (to
>>make iPod Audio Books). I found two for the Mac, they don't work, a
>>few for windows with Spyware attached or buggy to the extreme and none
>>for Linux. I found no reference to such a program on this list (and I
>>have archives for the past year, 83000+ messages) and I found nothing
>>with Google. Any help is appreciated. I'd write one if I knew anything
>>about the MP3 file format, but I don't right now and don't have the
>>time to learn/figure it out.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Chris
> 
> 
> Evil and from the command line but works,
> 
> $cat 1.mp3 2.mp3 > combined.mp3
> 
> done and done.
> 
> MC
> 

All right--can you tell me how to split a big MP3 file into two smaller 
files, each of which I could then convert to WAVeform and then burn onto 
a CD?

Temlakos