Convert EXE or other file to a text-format and back

Convert EXE or other file to a text-format and back

What i want to do is, transfer some exe files from my local PC to a server
thro RDP. Copy-Pasting the file doesnt work and i dont want to do it this
way.
What i tried to do was, open the exe in notepad in my local PC, copy the
contents and paste them in a text file in the server and then rename to
.exe. This, however did not work. It corrupted the exe file.
Is there any other way to convert the exe/binary file into a series of
strings only so that i can copy paste to the server, and then decode it
back to the exe without corrupting it?
Will base64 work?
(I can to use VBScript to encode/decode)