There is no reason to assume that the driver in question uses TIF as its native file format.

But first...

Are you assuming that the printer named "FAX" is always the same or are you verifying this in your code (not shown here)?

I would think even in XP it would be risky to make this assumption, so I would take a step back and say "if you want a printer driver on a system and you would to expect it to be there, don't assume it's on the system". IOW this is not necessarily platform-related as a potential issue. Although it will probably be unavailable, or point to a different driver, *fewer* times on some platforms than others, it's still an issue.

Once you know that, you take steps to make sure the printer driver you need is available, and what name it has, on the target system.

I don't think there is any reason why a driver that writes to a TIF format can't be installed under Win98. ( it just doesn't happen by default. )

You could also take another approach and find out what format the driver in question actually uses and do a post-process. For example, check and see if this converter handles whatever output format the Win98 fax driver uses (I have no idea): http://softsia.com/sw.php?p=n1d0

However, not knowing anything about the default driver, just googling quickly, it looks like this driver and fax processing have some other deficiencies. So the better approach would just be to install a more appropriate driver for your purposes.

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