writing special characters

Gentlemen,

I am going through another Linux book and one of the exercises wants me to
create a file, and then vopy that file to a new name.
Here are the procedures done:

touch andor
mv andor 'and\/or'

but it doesn't work. The error it gives is:

mv: cannot move `andor' to `and\\/or': No such file or directory

when I attempt it a backslash rather than the quote (mv andor and\\/or & mv
andor and\\\/or) it says the same thing. The odd thing that I notice is that
out of all of these the error message remained exactly the same (this
includes what they say they cannot movew the subject file to.

ls -l for this directory is:

 -rwxrwxrwx    1 plaything plaything        0 2005-01-25 18:31 andor
 -rwxrwxrwx    2 plaything plaything        0 2005-01-25 18:29 jh
 -rwxrwxrwx    2 plaything plaything        0 2005-01-25 18:29 X

The file 'X' is supposed to be '-X' but the error I get is:

cp X '-X'
cp: invalid option -- X

What is the problem?

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