You can find the backpropigation Neural Network programs on plains at ~juell/PDP and on abacus at ~juell/cs724pub/PDP
Some general documenation is in bp.info.
A good place to start in writing your own NN is to modify demo which is an XOR problem. demo.net defines the network. demo.pat defines training data. demo.str has the commands to run the program.
The full set of examples can be found in this directory