Plain text output

HI all!
Is there any simple way to generate plain text output in BI Publisher?
The situation is very simple: the query is (for example)
select text1 from my.table1So I need to put only one column (as is, without special padding etc) in *.txt output, I don't need special formatting.
row1
row2
row3
...How can I perform this task?
I tried to create an RTF template where there is a simple table without borders and withoud headers, and made CSV format. But in csv format I see
a) the column heading (alhough there are no headings in RTF)
b) each output row is quotted
c) crlf character is not as I expected (if I open the output in NOTEPAD, I see squares where there should be CRLF character)

I can't try RTF - we need txt files which are subsequently loaded into the system which sends sms to clients.
Each file contains rows with information about client, mobile phone etc. All these rows are prepared in one field of the table, so the query in the Publisher is simple: select text_sms from table1.

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package mypackage;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
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          StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
          PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(sw));
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      * @param sb Text to write to file
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System.out.println();
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File outFile = new File("makeHyperlinkTest.output");
try{
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This file just contains plain text with hyperlinks to places like www.google.com and http://www.yahoo.com.
The program I have written will convert these links like www.google.com into hyperlinks for displaying as html.
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