title: How to copy symbolic link file from Linux to Windows and then back to Linux but still keeping it as a symbolic link
body: <p>I have a symbolic link in my Linux machine.    </p>
  
  <p>I want to copy just the symbolic link (not the target) to a Windows machine and then copy this symbolic link from Windows machine back to some other Linux machine and symbolic link should continue to work.    </p>
  
  <p>What I tried:   </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I gziped the symbolic link   </li>
  <li>Moved gzipped file to Windows machine using WinSCP</li>
  <li>Extracted symbolic link    </li>
  <li>Moved symbolic file to Linux machine using WinSCP</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Now this file is not a symbolic link anymore.</p>
  
  <p>Do anybody knows a trick to do this?</p>