I'm not optomistic that this will work, but you might try looking at the command:
Call /?
or Start /?
I have Windows 2K and it was no help there, but maybe it is in XP.
The other option is to put PAUSE on every other line of the batch file.

It normally is used to have a batch file call another

>>>Thank you for your response. CMD.EXE of WinNT, Win2K and WinXP does not show any option switch for stepping.
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>>Do the same options you use in Windows 95 or 98 work? Just replacing COMMAND with CMD.
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>The options do not work for CMD.EXE
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